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Professor Wendell says: "On the question of the adoption by Harvard of the uniform entrance examinations my judgement, in a word, would be to 'avoid entangling alliances.' I think that the efficiency of the English Department has been lowered by every attempt made to adjust its standards to those of other colleges or the secondary schools...
...essential feature of all recent school reforms--or with a less question-begging title, school experiments or deteriorations--has been the tendency towards elective studies. We have on one side the desire to adjust the school work to the final purposes of the individual in practical life; which means beginning professional preparation in that period which has up to this time been given up to liberal education. We have on the other side the desire to adjust the school-work to the innate talents and likings of the individual; which means giving in the school-work no place to that...
This league, if founded, they say, might possibly be broken by war. To adjust definitely the single gold standard will be followed by overwhelming financial difficulties. Is this preferable to a league which might by chance be broken...
...thought of our State Department than the treaties with all other powers combined. The construction of treaties seems therefore a proper matter for the court. From the contiguity of our territory the settlement of boundary disputes should be arranged for in advance, and provision should be made to adjust that permanent source of international trouble-the fisheries...
...letter of Mr. Sears of Harvard and the telegram from Professor James Barr Ames, authorizing Mr. Sears to represent Harvard in writing Princeton a proposition to play Harvard a football game in Princeton on Nov. 2 next and a return game at Cambridge next year, provided satisfactory adjustment of the rules can be made, and they would ask that Captain Brewer appoint a meeting with Captain Lea to adjust rules and arrange details of the game, the committee at the meeting to consist of the captains and a graduate of each college...