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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...trustees of the University of Pennsylvania have taken no definite action on the plan to admit women students to the university. Failure to act was due probably to a student mass-meeting at which resolutions were passed calling upon the trustees to postpone action. As a result the matter was referred to a special committee to be appointed by Provost Smith. As the board will not meet again for three months, it will be impossible in any event to open the university to women until fall...
...comparison of the British Marine Insurance Act of 1906 with American...
...accordance with the Act of Congress, approved May 4, 1916, "To increase the number of cadets at the Military Academy," this University is entitled to nominate one candidate to take a competitive examination for admission to West Point. The candidate to be eligible must be between the ages of 21 and 27 years at the date of admission (June 14, 1918), and not less than five feet five inches in height. The candidate must also be a graduate of this University whose attainments in scholarship have been so marked as to receive the approbation of the President, and his proficiency...
...contests will be played under the conditions named below. A game will be forfeited if one of the teams does not appear within 15 minutes of the scheduled time. Freshman managerial candidates will act as referees, and if any complaints are to be made they should be submitted to E. W. Pavenstedt '20, Randolph 24, before 6 o'clock on the evening of the game. Players will furnish all their own equipment, except the pucks, which the H. A. A. will supply. Whenever possible, matches will be played on the Charles-bank rink which was built last year, although another...
...edit a volume of college verse is a labor of love; to disparage a labor of love is an ungracious act. Yet it is impossible to commend unreservedly "The Poets of the Future: a College Anthology for 1916-17"--the collection of 165 poems that Mr. Henry T. Schnittkind presents after culling over the "several thousand" that were submitted to him by the poets of "several hundred colleges"! One can have nothing but admiration for the patience and industry of an editor who has performed so stupefying a task; also, one can only marvel at the enthusiasm that has survived...