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...year-old David Kinley, a member of the Illinois faculty since 1893, oldest state university president. Situated in the neighboring towns of Urbana and Champaign, not far from the geographical centre of the state, the University of Illinois squats down and spreads out over 1,548 acres of campus and farm land. In Chicago, three hours by rail to the north, are the great medical schools (Pharmacy, Dentistry, Medicine...
...education which failed to give what President Hibben calls a "total perspective." It is this "total perspective" that the School is intended to create in its students, and success or failure lies in how well this end is attained. Regarding the contemplated organization purely as an educational project, the Campus will welcome it as another instance of the interest in such ventures which has marked the University at other times. As it is developed here and elsewhere by the trial and error method, the "inner college" idea, which underlies the organization of the new School, may conceivably grow to rank...
...come up that morning, and some the night before. They brought dance-dresses, high rawhide boots, Jaeger sweaters, fur coats, skates; the boys who had asked them up gave them skis and snowshoes if they wanted them. Last week there was a great parade by torchlight from the campus to Occum Pond. The college band was playing, and visitors rode in sleigh barges each pulled by four horses. The students gave a play, Fill the Bowl Up, on Occum Pond and a committee of solemn judges selected Jeannette Ross of Maplewood, N. J., and Miss Wheelock's School in Boston...
General opinion on the Lake Forest campus: This most recent spatter of mud is an effort to attack the smiles of Dakota universities, jealous of the place of the East, to get them into a position to favor his application for a job. Puddling would be bigger there... Very truly yours, Timothy Perry...
...pulchritude exhibited about the Yale campus and its environs during the past three days can have any sympathy with a suspension of the junior promenade. If Harvard has seen fit to take that step, we think the significance should be looked into by the proper authorities at that institution. There was once a typical attitude supposedly engendered by the Harvard training called Harvard indifference. The suspension of the Harvard prom must be a renaissance in a peculiarly terrible form of that phenomenon. Young men who voluntarily forego the pleasure of merely gazing upon these annual migrations of beauty...