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...swing away from the older systems of admission to the more recent one termed New Plan. Evidently secondary schools which have long realized the merits of the New Plan of Admission are advising their students to use it in preference to the Old Plan, are making necessary preparation curricula in consequence...
...curricula of liberal arts colleges for Negroes may be laughed at with the old chestnut, "Is Yo Did Yo Greek Yit?", the equally antiquated studies of "classical'' colleges for whites in the South might lead one to overhear a remark of this sort: "Ain't you-all done that thar Latting...
...give him. To derive the most from his study of English drama, a man should have read in the original Sophocles, Euripides, and Seneca, and to appreciate to the full his English satire he should know Horace, Ovid, and Persius. If, because of the ill-adjustment of the curricula of secondary schools, men cannot get their grounding in grammar of Classical languages there, and if because of pressing requirements of concentration and distribution, men cannot begin this elementary study in college, the alternative is to read the classics in English...
...taboo; Miss Margaret Sanger is not to be named in print; Al Capone and his boy friends must not be mentioned; no stories may be printed reflecting on the morality of coeds at Northwestern or any other school, not even Chicago; nothing which ridicules or criticises the administration, the curricula, the town of Evanston, its residents or their conduct will be tolerated. This code has been drafted by the board of student publications, and presented for ratification by the faculty supervisors. With the hope that they will shield the boys from the contamination which the name of Mrs. Sanger imparts...
...with the considered needs of first year men. Exeter, by initiating a new system of housing, has made the necessary adjustment; other preparatory schools should make similar provisions. Revision of college entrance examinations is necessary, but preparatory schools and colleges will first have to cooperate in the arrangement of curricula and housing systems if men are to derive the most from all phases of college life...