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...Pennsylvania, football has come in for a radical shake-up this fall. Coach John Heisman, late of Georgia Tech, is holding the reins, vice Bob Folwell, now in charge of the midshipmen at Annapolis. The situation at Pennsylvania is very much akin to that now prevailing at Cornell a new coach, new system, and green material. Reisman has been for some time acknowledged to be a first class coach, and his record compares very favorably with Dobie's. At Georgia Tech, however, he was first given headline recognition by the press, due to the remarkable aggregations that yearly...
...meetings, which will come every Monday night throughout the fall term, are primarily religious in their nature, although their scope extends to problems of all sorts--economic, moral, educational, industrial and political. By these meetings Freshmen are given an opportunity to hear well-known men speak on subjects closely akin to the daily life of the college...
...torn regions fill the President with horror;" so cries the Boston Herald in an emotional headline. The statement, of course, is reasonable enough. We might expect that any normal man on viewing the devastation of the most destructive war in history would experience an emotion something akin to horror. Mr. Wilson, in spite of his six years in the presidency, is yet normal and there is nothing sensational in his feeling very much as other...
...headquarters realize that the Illustrated can be the Illustrated and still contain reading matter. There is a faint touch of the latter by the presence of Professor Cestre's sincere warning, faint touch in regard to the quantity of the article which in quality and significance is more akin to smashing contact...
...forth in the story of Harvard's Law School will feel an eager interest quickened within him. The very idea that its further growth and improvement should by any chance be denied or impeded becomes unthinkable. The picture of the Law School as it is awaknes an emotion somewhat akin to that which one feels when he looks upon a great cathedral with one of its spires unfinished. There comes a keen desire to see it completed. So of this temple of legal learning, benefiting all our society as well as the individuals who are trained within it, a realization...