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...will also be difficult to ascertain the exact amount which the University will have contributed to the grand total, although careful observers place this amount very high. Both the Cambridge and the Charles River Trust Companies will take care of undergraduate subscriptions until noon today...
...vote polled yesterday by the Freshman class on the question of the advisability of investing a part of the surplus of the class fund in the Liberty Loan was unanimous in favor of the proposed plan, as far as it was possible to ascertain last night. The result of the balloting at the Wakefield range is not ket known, but there is little doubt but that the votes there will all fall in the same direction...
...trustees of Columbia University have recently taken an action of very large academic significance in appointing a special committee "to inquire and ascertain whether doctrines which are subversive of, or tend to, the violation or disregard of the Constitution or laws of the United States, or of the state of New York, or which tend to encourage a spirit of disloyalty to the Government of the United States, or the principles upon which it is founded, are taught or disseminated by officers of the university." This committee, which is to consist of five members, including the president, will inquire generally...
...David Starr Jordan, chancellor of Leland Stanford University: "I do not believe that the universities have any normal relations to the military side of national defence beyond their general obligation to ascertain and make known the truth." --Boston Advertiser...
...order to ascertain the after-effects of college athletics upon students, Dr. James Naismith, head of the department of physical education at the University of Kansas, has announced statistics compiled after extended correspondence with former athletes. In securing his figures Dr. Naismith sent inquiries to football players on teams prior to 1907, believing these men should by this time be able to detect any after-effects of the game. The questions were sent to football men as that game, he considered, is the most violent of college sports. To the question, "What injuries did you suffer while playing football...