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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...known as one of the most prominent liberals in Europe. Mr. Phoutrides was an instructor in the University 1916-17. He was appointed professor of the Classics at Athens two years ago, but stayed in this country on a mission from the Greek Government. He was a firm adherent of of the Venizelos ministry and is an intimate friend of Premier Venizelos, so that his mission terminated with that government. Next year he will continue his connection with the University as an instructor in the Classics...
...that damnable attitude which is marked throughout the whole American journalistic profession; refusal to take oneself, or what one is doing too seriously. Which is the reason I presume, why anyone attempting the duties of a physician, a lawyer, a banker, a plumber, or a clergyman, has the firm theory that he could edit a newspaper better than it is being edited, could write at least as well as anyone who is writing. The newspaper profession has no side, no hocus pocus of mystery, no grandiose flourish of technique that is in other professions gives pause to the average...
...greatest spiritual forces whose influence has ever been felt in this institution," Professor Palmer said in part. "A firm believer in the old Greek saying, 'Man is the measure of all things', he concentrated his attention on the study of human beings, only considering the physical world as a means, not an end in his studies. Seldom indeed could you go to Mr. Norton with a question, without finding that he had an answer to it, for he was a man whose work was studying---elaborate, sever, day by day drill...
Track victories are won very largely by second and third places and the slowest man on the squad must go to New Haven Saturday with a firm determination to come home happy because he has beaten some Yale man in a good race...
...Student Liberal Club continues to carry out its expressed purpose--the encouragement of a fair and open-minded undergraduate attitude toward national problems. Those who have accused the club of fostering radicalism cannot deny that tonight's lecturer is an upholder of the conservative tradition. Governor Allen's firm stand in Kansas labor disputes, his system of strike settlement by legal procedure, and his opposition to the "closed shop", leave no doubt as to his stand on industrial questions...