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...faculties of other colleges. Taking at random eight representative western universities, the CRIMSON has found that of their faculties an average of nine per cent. hold Harvard degrees. The highest percentage is in Missouri, where 36 out of 241 men are graduates of Harvard; Wisconsin comes last among those investigated with 6.3 per cent. At Columbia, the largest university in the country, the percentage is 9.3. Furthermore, there are 608 professors and associate professors, who hold Harvard degrees, teaching in other colleges throughout the country; and the number of instructors and assistant professors is without doubt much larger...
...exists primarily for the sake of defending himself. He exists for the sake of doing things. The same is true of nations. Among the things which a man may be called on to do are the helping and protecting of others. The same is true of nations. We Americans have passed our national infancy; it is no longer our chief biological function to feed and fatten and protect ourselves. We have reached the age of public responsibility; and unless we wish to invite national atrophy and decline, we must make up our mind to do a man's part...
...announcement of fall publications of the University Press contains, among other works, by men connected with the University, a diplomatic history of Poland, the second edition of the poems of an early Italian poet and a law book of unusual interest...
...School of Tropical Medicine has issued a "Report of the First Expedition to South America" by a party of its members. It contains detailed records of an investigation of certain forms of tropical disease in South America. Among the members of this expedition was Dr. Richard P. Strong, Professor of Tropical Medicine, who afterwards made a brilliant fight against typhus fever in Serbia during the last winter...
...Among the most noted of his Greek productions were "The Trojan Women" and "Iphagenia in Tauris," seen in the Stadium last spring...