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...left of the case is pinned the royal banner of fleur de lis which Lafayette carried leading his French troops under General Washington during the American Revolution...
...educational stream that makes possible the professions; and the never failing river of student life . . . The cultivation of learning alone produces not a university but a research Institute. The sole concern with the student life produces an academic country club or merely a football team maneuvering under a collegiate banner. The future of the university tradition in America depends on keeping a proper balance between the four essential Ingredients. . ." PRESIDENT CONANT, TERCENTENARY ADDRESS, 1936. Classes of 1954 at a Glance HARVARD YALE PRINCETON DARTMOUTH Gross number of applicants 3000 3000 3200 3380 Number In class 1150 1049 763 719 Number...
John Monro, who has been playing the Illinois circuit for Harvard during the past several years, says that "the travelling circus of admissions counselors descends on a high school like locusts." Monro explains that he takes a table, plunks down some pamphlets, hangs up a Harvard banner, sees a few harried students and parents, and then pulls up stakes for the next town's "College...
Crowed Red Boss Palmiro Togliatti: "We have rallied around our banner 42% of voters in big Italian cities and 31% in Sicily . . . From our souls rises a hymn of praise...
Today, Yale undergraduates still "play the game"-on the field & off-in an atmosphere of calm but unrelenting competition. From the moment a freshman begins to "heel" for the News, the Banner or the Lit, his life becomes a purposeful drive upward-but a drive he must pretend to ignore. "Intense, aren't you?" is the rebuke to overenthusiasm. "The thing to do," says one undergraduate, "is to drift energetically...