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...some of his best men-Dean Valentine, President Raymond Walters of the University of Cincinnati, President Frank Parker Day of Union College, Dean Frances Burlingame of Elmira College. President Aydelotte introduced scholarships of a Rhodes type at Swarthmore, doubled the number for next year hoping to get more and abler students. Among Swarthmore alumni are onetime Governors Sweet of Colorado, Sproul of Pennsylvania, Alice Paul of the National Woman's Party, onetime Attorney General Alexander Mitchell Palmer. Swarthmore has produced no Einstein. That is what Frank Aydelotte wants to do next...
...hand, they may enter a student employment competition on their own initiative and thus occupy a position reserved by the Personnel Department for some other applicant. If the individual takes this course, he places the department in the position of assisting an inferior man to the exclusion of an abler one. The result in either case acts to the detriment of the individual, the University and the undergraduate body as a whole...
...general personal qualifications as well as on set scholastic attainment, should be the means, as it is in the Professional Schools, for weeding out the plodders. With the elimination of these men, whose theses are often more statistical records of insignificant events, professors would be freer for assisting abler students. Moreover restriction of membership in the Graduate School to first-rank scholars, men of definite intellectual vitality, would be the surest means of increasing the School's prestige and of attracting more students of the best type...
Probably an abler artist than Peggy Bacon is William Henry Dyson of England who hung more of his brilliantly bitten etchings at the Ferargil Galleries last week. Grey-haired, slender and 48. he was born in Ballarat, Australia, still speaks with a rich bush-twang. He emerged from the War a witty cynic with an artistic manner reminiscent of Beerbohm the Exquisite, but with an even surer command of line. Possibly to make the Beerbohm parallel less marked he adopted etching as his medium two years ago. Like Max, half the effect of his pictures is in the written...
...political subjects, topics which often afford more opportunity for matching statistics and specious "debating points" than for matching careful thought, fine language, and ready wit. The discussion of subjects in the fields of fine arts and history as well as in politics would tend to draw more, and perhaps abler, men into debating and to arouse general undergraduate interest...