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...question of a fitting memorial to the Princeton men who have given their lives in the war, is one which should commend itself to the earnest consideration of all Princetonians, graduates and undergraduates alike....... There are three fundamental qualifications which any memorial must fulfil. It must be a thing in which every undergraduate must have had an opportunity to contribute his thought and means to its realization. Secondly, it must be dignified, symbolic of the memories and deeds it seeks to perpetrate. And lastly, it must be susceptible of use by the undergraduates in their daily life on the campus...
Perhaps a few readers of the CRIMSON, gifted with uncommon powers of insight and penetration, have been able to understand what we have been talking about; to such as have, we do commend our crushed and humbled spirits...
...these gentlemen I would commend one further word--'ARETE--which in its several and interrelated meanings will quite repay a voyage to the dictionary. EDWIN B. HOLT
...only commend Mr. Hack's opinions. The tendency to cram for examinations, to haggle over marks, to amass information relative to nothing other than the mer possession of it, are all symptoms of an educational disease that this writer sees clearly. But whether we agree with Mr. Hack's constructive ideas or not, it is great relief to find in his work a fearless bidding to Mr. Flexner and his opponents to stop their howling. The world is tired of fighting over terms. If there are faults with modern education, negative criticism alone will not go far toward curing them...
...edit a volume of college verse is a labor of love; to disparage a labor of love is an ungracious act. Yet it is impossible to commend unreservedly "The Poets of the Future: a College Anthology for 1916-17"--the collection of 165 poems that Mr. Henry T. Schnittkind presents after culling over the "several thousand" that were submitted to him by the poets of "several hundred colleges"! One can have nothing but admiration for the patience and industry of an editor who has performed so stupefying a task; also, one can only marvel at the enthusiasm that has survived...