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Dean Christian Gauss of Princeton, backed strongly by President Hibben, stood forth yesterday against the American Association of University Professors which found that football is a menace to morals and education, when he stated that, "football, properly coached and conducted, is a healthy and wholesome sport for players and spectators. I wish, we could play it the year around...
Agreeing with the professor's report that the primary aim of all colleges should be the training of the mind, Dean Gauss, nevertheless held that, "Football is one of the healthiest academic avocations, and I have known many stars who were Phi Beta Kappa...
...Colonel Crompton, his old friend and associate, roared out: "Your father orders you to speak!" Dr. Michael I. Pupin of Columbia University addressed the visitors, with great names upon his tongue for them to honor, the names of electricity's pioneers-Volt, Ampere, Ohm, Faraday, Hertz, Kelvin, Helmholtz, Gauss, Coulomb...
...names Volt, Ampere, Ohm, Faraday, Henry, Gauss, Coulomb, Joule are household gods, and they remind us that we have the same interest and worship at the altar of the same patron saints--Kelven, Helmholtz, Maxwell. Heitz, Sumens, Cramme, Paccenotte. We have the same household gods and the same patron saints. We are all one. So each one of these meetings looks more and more like a family gathering. I wish that the American Congress were here and the American Senate to watch our proceedings and learn that the scientist and the engineer have discovered the great secret--greater than anything...
Twelve hundred applications for the freshman class have been received, and of these over six hundred have already been admitted, according to Professor Christian Gauss, director of Information. Registration of the class of 1927, however, is not yet complete. Psychological tests, which proved so successful last year, have been continued and enlarged in scope. Forty transfers from other colleges have been admitted...