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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...plea of Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, New York, for an increase of $30,000,000 in the endowment fund of that institution so that it may proceed at once with important undertakings, illustrates, among other things, the marvellous advance that has taken place in the conception of the mission and scope of higher education since the days of John Harvard and Eli Yale. The college founder or president who used to think in terms of thousands is now thinking in terms of millions and tens of millions. Christian Science Monitor...
That there is a distinct demand for plays of this type is shown by the welcome which the players received at the Century Theatre in New York. Among the Eastern colleges and universities, the Portmanteau Theatre has met with especial enthusiasm. It is well worth while. Those who attend either of today's performances will be pleasantly surprised with the excellent acting, the quaint atmosphere and with the choice of plays...
...close vote in California and New Mexico avails to keep uppermost in our minds the questions of national honor that we were all willing--or were we willing?--to die for two weeks ago. The human interest of football is unquestioned and unquestionable. It was ever thus among people who had sporting blood in their veins. There were many people in ancient Greece whose patriotism did not prevent them from deeply resenting the intrusion of Leonidas and his battle of Thermopylae into the year 480 B. C., which was one of the years scheduled for the Olympian games. They regarded...
...diploma, a fraternity pin and a bull-dog pipe to make a man. You can't expect to get an education out of a four-years' college course. You just get started. Keep at it all your life and you will get part of an education if you are among the successful. Don't build your character like a woman fixes a sewing machine--removing everything that should be left stationary and putting oil on the belt. I can tell your size by what you are over-coming. Striving for big things is what makes men like Abraham Lincoln...
...more to this invitation than merely seeing to it that the sailors have seats. They should be made welcome by all Harvard men with a lusty Harvard cheer, and receive the right hand of fellowship. These same lads whom you will see attending your football game will probably be among the first to give their lives for their country, should the cause ever come. They are spending four arduous years of their life in preparing for the event, while the undergraduate is enjoying four years of the best the land can give him. Is it not well, then, to recognize...