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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Swimming Association is keenly hoped for by followers of the sport at Yale, for it would mean that, after a few years of constructive work, the triangle composed of Harvard, Princeton and Yale would be contending for another intercollegiate championship, just as in football, track or crew. This situation cannot be hoped for too largely...
...need not only to make leaders for the future, but also to keep this place so that it may in the future be able to produce new leaders. The graduates and faculty cannot do this. It rests with you whether or not the College comes through this period with her standards unlowered. As the Archbishop of York has said: 'You must keep the flag of the College flying...
...interpret his inmost aspirations. We may smile at the awed Indian raising his arms in emotion as the Thunder Bird beckons to him from on high, and at the simple habitant crossing himself before the heavenly apparition of the Maid of Orleans and the martial St. Michael. But we cannot laugh at the emotion which has opened these peoples' eyes to the starry sign. It proves that the awful events which are in progress in the world have entered the hearts and minds of all men. It is a token that the world is aroused to the necessity of vast...
...fact an appeal for a Short-Cut to Knowledge. As wiser heads know, there is no such detour. The path of the regular curriculum is the one highway leading to the real Castle of Comprehension, if it leads anywhere at all. The students say they want the road. Cannot they be made to see what that way is by the guidance of the discussion groups? --Boston Transcript...
Newton D. Baker, our Secretary of War, has arrived on French soil for the purpose of investigating military conditions there. No obligation of his office required him to undergo the rigors and risks of such an adventure--and he may have been needed at home--but he cannot fail to profit by the experience. His remark before the Senate committee that the war was 3,000 miles away, in giving an answer to the question why he had not moved more rapidly towards preparation, has been symptomatic of his state of mind. He can now realize what war at hand...