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...Indian people, but is in fact, a grave deviation from their own policy of centralization, but at the same time, one which makes it vastly more simple to sustain the foreign rule in the subcontinent. The great majority of the Indian rajahs and native princes are more of a detriment than an aid to their people and it is a mistake to suppose that the opposition which might be offered to a policy of general dethronement would be such as to prevent the movement from being carried out. The Indian native rulers squander the wealth they gain by force from...
...other side stand President Ernest M. Hopkins of Dartmouth and President John Grier Hibben of Princeton. The former told the delegates to the N. C. A. A. meeting that the benefits greatly outweighed the evils and that, on the whole, the situation was on a healthy basis, working no detriment to the intellectual purposes of the college. Dr. Hibben told the Princeton alumni that the only protests about the overemphasis on football came from those outside of the colleges...
...main detriment to education in the south," he said, "is, of course, the negro situation. But we are still going through a period of reconstruction, South Carolina was the most trampled on state in the South, and received a hard blow. Nevertheless, our small colleges are making rapid progress, and producing some powerful intellects...
...indeed, less wine and less beer are drunk but more of fancy Oriental herbs [plus orientalium herbarum decoratarum] and more of coffee, which all too often, perchance to the detriment of study and discipline, our young men and women consume in the morning hours in the city shops. And it must be confessed we older men mourn the becoming dress of our contemporaries when we see our students adorned with clothes of various colors and actually wearing trousers which, by the ambitious latitude in their fullness, are more barbarian than any which the Dacians or Sarmatians wore...
That college faculties and college students have in the past worked at cross purposes because the former have tended to emphasize the scholarly ideal to the exclusion of all else, and the latter have too often been content to pursue a more or less animal ideal to the detriment of their mental development; while the development of character has been left almost wholly to the student to pick up as best he might...