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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...conditions of her $1,000 play contest. According to the original outline of the competition, it was, because of a misunderstanding, limited to undergraduate students in any American college or university. This would have eliminated all but two students in English 47 in the University and almost as many at Radcliffe, for this course is made up almost wholly of those who have received their college degree. Moreover, all the advanced work of English 47a would have been ineligible under the original conditions...
From the point of view of the under-graduate Commencement at present may almost be called an anti-climax of Class Day. At the end of a four-year course, a student passes through the brilliant celebrations of the Senior Spread, the Ivy Oration, and the Yale baseball game--then to file into the cramped and out-grown space of Sanders Theatre for the most vital hour of his College life, leaving his family to see the glass flowers or visit Concord and Lexington in the interini. The fathers and mothers, especially those who have come from the West...
...could China get enough teachers to occupy the chairs in the various departments? To use foreigners was only a temporary expedient. If the new educational system should be carried throughout China, the teachers must be Chinese. Hence, sending competent students to study in Japan, America, and Europe was started almost simultaneously with educational reforms...
...would obtain from a regular exchange, Dr. Klein emphasized especially the fact that the average educator in South America takes a more active part in public life than is common in the United States. Professor Lima, for instance, is one of Brazil's most noted diplomats. Thus Harvard would almost always receive, as a visiting lecturer, some man especially qualified to speak on the affairs of his country
Offensively, McGill was inferior to the University team last year, and the defence centered almost entirely in the brilliancy of Mann. Harvard's defence, however, which has not been scored on in the last three games, should be able to cope with the Canadians' attack, although Captain Morgan will probably be unable to play on account of a bad cold, and the forward line is playing in equally high form...