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...tendency to take Coue more seriously--perhaps for the reason that he is famous but largely because the facts about him have become known. He was born of poor parents, worked his way through school and college, taking three degrees in the process; kept a drug store for fourteen years; and finally, through sheer hard work and force of character, made a career for himself hardly the story of an ignorant quack, or the ordinary doctor...
...suggestion such as this sounds much more startling to men in the University than to others, for in fourteen colleges, including Princeton and Williams, courses of much the same type have already been given and proved satisfactory. The Association is basing its report rather on experimental cases than on a novel suggestion of its own, and it is hoping to make easier a difficult step in each student's progress--the transition from preparatory school to college. It is bearing in mind the case of the student who passed his entrance examinations with honor marks, and then received four...
...Saturday Review" would limit the admission of Americans to Oxford. Unfortunately, his is not a solitary opinion. "I would welcome", says a Senior Tutor at Exeter College, Oxford in the "Nineteenth Century", "as freshmen at my College rather two English secondary school boys than four Colonials or fourteen Americans. . . ." Review" asks of a defender of the Americans, "His it ever occurred to his that with the control over the Union, their influence over a section of the Press and their secondary in the social clubs, the Americans will soon assimilate Oxford?' while another remarks that "Instead of a culture peculiarly...
This is the second time that Syracuse has won the meet, having captured first place once before in 1919. During the fourteen years that this meet has been held under the auspices of the I. C. A. A. A. A. Cornell has won't eight times, Harvard once, Maine once, and Pennsylvania once besides the two victories for Syracuse...
...soon as the carpenters finish the new courts, they will remodel courts seven and fourteen, originally used for squash tennis, when the building was first built, and consequently oversize. The front walls will be moved forward about a foot and the real wall is to be but six and a half feet high. Formerly the space above this line was covered with chicken wire which hindered the view of spectators; and as balls rarely go higher than six feet in the court, the wire has been omitted and a series of bleacher seats erected in back. This will provide...