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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Those who delight in comparisons will find little to choose between private and preparatory school records in the list. St. Mark's and the Central High School of Springfield are practically tied for first place; and throughout honors are about evenly divided between the two kinds of schools. The Springfield school has been awarded the Phi Beta Kappa trophy; but others, notably St. Mark's are very close, and effort will have to be made to retain it. It is highly desirable that schools which have made a good showing should conscientiously "go out" to win the trophy next year...
...secret of success in track lies in getting Freshmen interested in the work. With 13 events to choose from, every man can find an event suited to his particular qualifications. To play football a man must have strength above the ordinary, to play baseball he must have a good eye, in track work he must merely be sound physically. Slight men as a rule make the best distance runners and it has been demonstrated time and again that any man who will train for four years can make good time in the mile or two-mile...
...surprising to find intelligent persons opposing suffrage for women on the ground that it would mean doubling the complexity of government, with all the grave dangers of such a process, without securing the representation of any further interests...
...like having an interview with Dean Briggs himself. His sympathetic knowledge of a student's problems gained from a genuine warm-hearted interest in his welfare gains at once the confidence of the reader and imparts a special significance to his words. Parents as well as students will find the article instructive as it brings out the interdependence of the one on the other...
...average undergraduate has little desire to hasten the process so thoughtfully provided by Providence. Hence the daily advent of the goody and her dust-provoking broom is a constant trial. He leaves each morning for his nine o'clock with the tragic assurance that he will return to find a smooth, even coat of the vital principle spread over his table-top, his "English Composition," and his haberdashery. The suggestion that for that venerable engine of superficial sanitation,--the broom, the electric vacuum cleaner might be substituted, will doubtless be met with the objection that the change would be financially...