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...recent Phillips Brooks House report on the relations of the commuters to the college showed that 36 percent of the upperclassmen in the group take part in college athletics. According to the report 81 per cent of the remainder would like to share in intramural sports if a convenient opportunity were provided. Theoretically, any man not a House-resident can play on one of the Rambler teams in the intramural league games. Probably, however, the organization of Brooks House teams as regular contestants in the inter-House sports would make it easier for commuters to share in athletics. It would...
...decline in the vote to Hitler's National Socialists is the most significant thing shown by the German national elections last Sunday," said S. B. Fay '96, professor of History, in an interview yesterday. "Since the vote for his party has declined from 37 per cent to 33 per cent of the total, Hitler has suffered his first major setback since the fall...
...revealed at Phillips Brooks House that the new system under consideration has come about as a result of the survey on commuting students made last spring. The survey pointed out that 36 per cent of the upperclassmen in that status take part in some athletic activity...
From an educational point of view, the Foundation's criticism of the two chief methods of determining college admissions (certification and examination) can hardly be refuted. Certification, used in 90 per cent of American colleges, permits too much leeway to be any accurate standard. Little account is taken of the frequently haphazard or outdated school courses, and there have also been more than a few cases of kind schoolmasters padding a student's grade. The Old Plan examination method of the oldest and best-known American universities depends too much on the chance that the pupil will have the ideal...
...perfect. In his references to the "error in direction" in human endeavor and the admission that there is "something rotten in the system,"--in spite of his final conclusion that "there is nothing intrinsically wrong with our system"--Mr. Lindley shows that he is not 100 per cent sold on President Hoover's individualist philosophy of government. He gives no evidence, however, that he realizes the fundamental conflict between the Hoover philosophy and some form of the collectivist philosophy. Without the realization of what this conflict implies and a struggle with the problem involved, neither Mr. Lindley nor any others...