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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...examinations were this year applied to the Freshmen entering Columbia, and the men who were accepted on this plan have in almost every case proved their ability to handle the work. All men who took the tests were divided into three groups, and of the first group only two have failed to rank near the top of their class. It is admittedly impossible to judge finally as to the value of the tests with only one year's trial but Dr. Jones is confident of their ultimate value...
...Humphries came at the invitation of a certain radical group in the University. Those men say they wanted "to hear both sides of the question." What they wanted to hear, and have others hear, was their own side. Otherwise, why should they have imported Mr. Humphries...
...college ideals and traditions; and these meetings tend to acquaint the students with well-known faculty members and with college modes of life. . . It is evident that the Freshmen . . . cannot hope to become familiar with the ways of college without some exterior assistance. They remain an amorphous but unamalgamated group in their present situation, and some definite means should be taken to submit them to the solvent of university life. CALIFORNIA ALUMNI FORTNIGHTLY...
...honor list, but, in accordance with the vote of the chapter taken last year, the award has now been made to the school whose candidates attained the highest average grade, this grade being calculated on the total records of all final candidates from the school competing as a group with all final candidates from other schools...
...Last August", he said, "just before I sailed from Hankow for America, I received an invitation to tea from a group of prominent Chinese merchants of Hankow. The opinion they presented to me on the Shantung difficulty represents the sentiment of the more modern Chinese business men, for my friends were not Chinese officials whose views are steeped in imperialism. They had called me in because they knew I was about to leave for America and they wished me to convey their views on Shantung to my friends here in America. What they said may best be retold in somewhat...