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...site of extreme importance long before West Point, the Military Academy replaced with its buildings of instruction the forts and bastions of defense. The name West Point was first brought before the public eye when, in 1776, the realization came both to the Colonists and to the British Chief Staff that a strategical control of the Hudson was a necessity. Should loyal New England sons hold this tiny plateau, the Colonies would not be out in two; should Britain force this key point, she might easily reduce the two parts of the infant Republic. West Point was fortified...
...community and should be given every chance to make that contribution." Mr. Sloan, an electrical engineer, is closely affiliated with medicine. His championship of women doctors is based on experience- for years his family doctor has been able Connie Myers Guion, 47, specialist in internal medicine, Cornell Medical graduate, chief of the department of medicine of the Cornell Pay Clinic, Manhattan...
According to present calculations the new wing of Vanderbilt Hall, chief residential unit of the Medical School, which is now under construction, will be completed and ready for occupancy by next fall. The addition will contain between 50 and 60 rooms...
...Yale were invited to express their views respecting the higher education of today. Among them, very naturally, was the Hon. William Howard Taft, who responded to the invitation with a critical piece that set a thousand tongues aquiver. In an interview with Frazier Hunt in the current "Cosmopolitan" the Chief Justice returns to his theme. "The emphasis in college life is wrong", he insists. And he proceeds to expatiate on the submergence of scholarship in extra-curricula activities and especially athletics. "The stadium," he says, "overshadows the classroom--athletics have a dollar sign in front of them...
...cure the malady, how to loosen the grip of the alumni on college policy and vest it again in the little company of scholars who are supposed to lead the undergraduate toward the light? On this point the Chief Justice makes no suggestions. But possibly the remedy lies in a reaction among the alumni themselves. We note, for instance, in "The Harvard Alumni Bulletin," a strong protest against a proposed enlargement of the Harvard Stadium to meet the demand for seats at her major athletic spectacles. This and the more or less widespread movement to get rid of the professional...