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...balance of power must be situated between the others, and this is not the case with Socialism, Mr. Walling concluded his remarks by stating the position Socialism. Mr. Walling concluded his remarks by stating the position Socialists should take. As they cannot at present expect to exert any material influence themselves, they should support the Progressive party, which represents more nearly than the others the tendency towards a socialistic state. When the condition of "partial collectivism" advocated by the Progressives has been reached it will be time to set themselves up as an independent power
...Wisconsin; for the freshmen with Princeton, Navy, Cornell, Columbia, Syracuse and Wisconsin, and those two or three college freshman eights which will enter the American Henley regatta at Philadelphia on May 31. The prospect of such a busy racing season is a great incentive to the men to exert themselves to the utmost during the many weeks of hard training and the daily and continual quest of that elusive 'perfection of form...
...units" of school work, a unit amounting approximately to one-fourth year of school work. However, provided the applicant for admission offers both elementary Latin and Greek he will be allowed to enter with 15 1-2 units of school work. Just how much influence this provision will exert in increasing the study of Greek is hard to say. At present most of those who are studying Greek are doing so to teach it later; and so it goes on, teachers instructing future teachers. This state of affairs may be likened to a dog chasing its own tail and finally...
That the foundation of the Harvard University Press is to exert an influence of the highest order in the field of learning and will be a strong factor in the advance of scholarship is recognized generally by the public press. We are quoting below an editorial from the Springfield Republican which illustrates very forcibly the attitude of the outside press toward the importance of the new University foundation. The editorial, printed in full, follows...
...over-confidence. The confidence that Harvard men feel is not that which turns to panic at the first hint of reverse, but the real confidence that maintains itself at the same even strength through good and ill--confidence in the quality of our team and in its determination to exert itself to the utmost in its last great contest of the season...