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...Seniors will assemble in the Yard in front of Holworthy Hall at 3.30 o'clock, dressed in caps and gowns. The class will then march two abreast, headed by the first marshal and the chairman of the Class Day Committee between Thayer and University Halls to Appleton Chapel. The first marshal and the chairman will march to the front of the chapel, and then turning will walk back, dividing the Seniors and assigning them to pews as they go. They then return to the front pew and at a signal from the chairman the class sits down...
...yard lead to Goodwin when he took the baton. For the first lap Goodwin increased his lead to 20 yards, but John of the Ithaca team speeded up in the second and third laps and cut the lead to five yards. A spurt in the final lap brought him abreast of Goodwin at the take-off line...
...announcement that Professor Lord will open his general course in Russian History after mid-year's, as a half-course dealing especially with more recent events in Russia, comes as welcome evidence that Harvard is keeping abreast of the times in the matter of curriculum. While, in general, it is not the proper function of a university to deal with questions upon which much evidence is outstanding, nothing stimulates undergraduate interest so much or shows in such a concrete way the bearing of the classroom on life as a stimulating discussion and analysis of contemporaneous events...
...Seniors will assemble in the Yard in front of Holworthy at 3.30 o'clock dressed in caps and gowns. The class will then march two abreast, headed by the First Marshal and the Chairman of the Class Day Committee between Thayer and University Halls to Appleton Chapel. The First Marshal and the Chairman will march to the front of the Chapel and then turning will walk back, dividing the Seniors into the pews as they go. They then return to the front pew and at a signal from the Chairman, the class sits down...
President Hibben's Alumni Day address was animated by that spirit of progress and energy which alone makes a university an asset. Too often a university impresses the world as being so absorbed in the past that it is unable to keep abreast of the present. It would indeed be a sorry sight to see an age bearing along the university instead of the university leading the age on to nobler ends. Such a sight Princeton will never permit if her president's program is adopted. The modification of admission requirements will open her doors to many more students, while...