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...then whose interpretation of Christianity? How can that "godliness" include the Buddhist, the Jew, or the Confucianist within our gates. Frankly, are these groups "godless"? And again, if "godliness" demands subscription to a trinitarian theism, all monotheists must be "godless". Pantheists of any sort, by such a criterion, are hopelessly "godless...
Heretofore Harvard has gone on the assumption that candidates who sought admission sought it for purposes of education, and it has logically made its standard for selection the absolute one of scholarship. The criterion has proved on the whole just and reasonable, and the report of the committee would lead to the suspicion that it recognizes no necessity for a radical departure...
...also test his general reading knowledge of literature. Upon the history examination was a question calling both for some knowledge of the past history of Europe, but also enabling the candidate to show what reading he had done upon very recent history. This sort of question is a good criterion of the general mental equipment of the candidate, might even be more emphasized, and provide a basis for deciding doubtful cases...
This ever-increasing silence has only recently fallen upon the undergraduate, if the memories of graduates among the Faculty may be trusted upon this point, and is largely a local phenomenon if the testimony of conditions at Yale and Princeton given at a recent debating conference may be a criterion. Yale, working perhaps from the top downwards, has an increased number of debates with outside colleges; while Princeton, applying stimulus at a more vital point, has interested something over an average of two hundred men in bi-monthly forums where discussion is free and open...
Against Brown the Crimson stumbled and fell yet the game offers no criterion by which the comparative strength of Harvard and Yale may be judged. True the Bulldog trounced Brown 21 to 0 while that same Brown team defeated Harvard 20 to 7. But Fisher kept Hubbard, Coburn, Jenkins, Lee, McGlone, and Cheek out of the contest, and its result would certainly have been different had they been in. It is doubtful it the Brown center could have blocked Pfaffmann's disastrous drop kick had Hubbard been in the Crimson line. The score of the game, however, proves at least...