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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There is a strong note of pessimism throughout the three short articles on present day school and college athletics in the current issue of the Atlantic Monthly. The editor in introducing his contributors says: "It is not too much to say that, if the current standard of athletic honor were applied to other undergraduate interests, the training of American youth would border on demoralization." The headmaster of Phillips Andover Academy follows with a severe indictment of the methods of some of the school coaches and of the colleges where the example of these methods is set Finally comes Professor Stewart...
There are still a number of copies of this year's Register left at the two Cooperative stores. There seems to be an erroneous impression current to the effect that the volume has grown much smaller and yet the price raised. The Student Council deemed it expedient to raise the price from 75 cents to $1.00, in an attempt to make the book more nearly pay for itself. The real reason for the volume appearing less thick than last year is due to a much thinner quality of paper being used, although leaving out the College Directory did, of course...
...writing in the current Illustrated is interesting; but it wants seriously the smoothness of good English and careful editing. The pictures for the number are excellent in subject, but they must be printed black on white before they will show to advantage. There is a subtle irony in the picture of two Yale men wading a river, entitled "The Harvard-Yale Cross-Country...
...meetings are to come once every month and the discussion will be centered around topics of current political, economic, and sociological problems. At each meeting, a professor of one of the departments devoted to the study of political, economic, or sociological subjects will give a review of the current happenings relating to the topic under consideration. A general discussion will follow these talks, giving the men an excellent opportunity to express their opinions clearly and concisely in a forum through which the best thought on current problems will receive widespread recognition. Definite plans will be drawn up shortly after...
There is significance in the rapidity with which articles on the colleges are appearing in the public press; evidently colleges are growing in some sort of reputation and are receiving notice accordingly. The latest discussion is in the current Outlook and is a substantiated opinion that colleges are giving valuable business training. This is scarcely in accord with Mr. Bok, who stated in the same magazine last summer that good business men avoid college graduates until they have had time to have foolish ideals and ideas knocked from their heads. And this article does not blame the college...