Word: alumni
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dull literature, nothing is duller than the alumni bulletins of universities which one has not attended. Yet persons who were never within gunshot of the University of Pennsylvania were struck by an article in the current General Magazine and Historical-Chronicle (quarterly) of the Pennsylvania alumni association. Therein, Dean Emory R. Johnson reported that he had, during a recent visit to Chufu, in the Province of Shantung, China, invited as a matriculant to the University of Pennsylvania a young gentleman whose genealogy has no peer for well-authenticated length or world-wide distinction, Duke K'ung, aged...
...Ormond ("Tuss") McLaughry, Brown football coach, paid tribute at an alumni dinner to eleven other iron men— the Brown football team that played through the season undefeated.* He derided the idea that he fed his protégés on milk. "Music," he said, "is what makes Iron Men. The players depend on rhythm and morale, and unless you have a singer or two on the squad you have a tough time keeping up the morale. Whenever we were in the train on the way to a game I always made them start a song...
...many alumni possessed of excellent intentions but of no educational philosophy, the great aim of outdoor college sports seemed to be to make a Roman holiday, to create a spectacle, to gain publicity for the college and glorify alumni reunions. In recent years we became fully aware of the abuses of such a system, and it is needless to rehearse them. College sports were becoming the enemies of college education...
They should be conducted for the benefit of the students, by themselves and by the appropriate authorities of the university, not by others to furnish entertainment to alumni and the public...
...current issue of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin Judge Henry N. Blake, LL.B. '58, has printed a list of the Harvard men who will sit in the United States Senate when the elections of last November go into effect. The list follows...