Word: affections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recent ruling of the Athletic Committee that Princeton games be letter games in the cases of football, hockey, baseball, and track will not go into affect until next September. This decision was reached by the Student Council when the question arose whether or not letters should be awarded to the three men who played in the hockey game with Princeton but did not play in the Yale game. The three men under consideration were C. I. Wylde '27, George Crawford II '28, and J. B. Durant '27. All three men will be back next year...
...university can hope to render. It bears a close kinship to the spirit which has imbued the American graduate school in its recent development. It would be difficult to exaggerate the importance of this application by a university of its expert minds to the solution of problems which affect equally each unit of the society in which they arise...
When asked how the decision would affect the campaign Professor W. Z. Ripley has been waging for better conditions of corporate control, Professor Cunningham said, "This decision of the Interstate Commerce Commission is in direct accord with Professor Ripley's contentions. It is obvious that if only ten percent of a large issue of stock carries voting rights, a group of small minority holders can gain control of the whole thing, since all they need is 51 percent of ten percent. It was against this feature of the merger, as much as any other that the unfavorable decision was aimed...
...education without ever having learned to study. Regardless of all other factors, there is a pretty constant ratio between attainment and application, and until the American boy begins seriously to exert himself from an earlier age it is not likely that any other reforms will greatly affect the age of his intellectual maturity--Harvard Alumni Bulletin...
...another aspect of this work however, which claims the attention of the American undergraduate. Much of the energy of the Student Friendship Fund, with that of the Confederation Internationale des Etudiants, has been directed toward the encouragement of internationalism in learning. The exchange of students between countries will affect not only their political relations, but to a great extent their intellectual development. The world of learning has moved far from the medieval ideal; already our universities have become more national in character and appeal. That this situation has been radically changed since the war, and that it is every...