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...Book of Princeton Verse," edited by Alfred Noyes, Visiting Professor of English at Princeton, has just been issued. Something of the quality of the contents may be gained from the following extract from a review by Katharine Fullerton Gerould...
...this occasion. Directly afterwards the Freshman class will ascend the stands and pose for its picture. All members of the Freshman class should appear upon the scene with the pockets of their coats, trousers, and vests bagging with change, bills, and checks, since the Seniors will politely but repeatedly extract funds for the Senior Picnic...
...free and abundant farm land in the United States is past. All of the best land is occupied, and the farmer can no longer extract the largest crops, regardless of future fertility, and then move on to another tract of virgin soil. The land must be farmed carefully and scientifically; it must yield more per acre...
...another extract Mr. Angell gives attention to War. "What is the problem of War?" he writes. "Why do nations give their first care to the preparedness for it? To defend themselves. But that means that someone believes in attack; otherwise, if no one believed in the effectiveness of successful attack, none of us would be threatened, and the whole problem would be solved...
...following extract taken from the New York Evening Post is particularly pertinent in regard to an evil which seems to be gaining firmer hold on the colleges. It discusses the growing evidence that colleges are willing to make professional athletes of schoolboys in order to induce them to play on their teams...