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...writer in the February Harper's is of the opinion that many prominent doctors are alive to a critical weakening in the Medical Conscience. The causes of this social decay undoubtedly hark back to the bulk of improper material accepted by American Medical Schools and Colleges...
Exeter, N. B., November 16--A gift has been made to Phillips Exeter Academy by Edward S. Hark-ness, donor of the Harvard House Plan, for the purpose of making definite improvements in secondary education at Exeter, it was announced here tonight by Lewis Perry, principal of the Academy. The exact sum of money given was not made public...
...Yale Record," whose province it is to satirize things academic, has just issued a "House Planner's Number." Yale, it will be recalled, has lately decided to follow Harvard's lead in dividing its large undergraduate body into residential groups and has accepted a munificent gift from Mr. Hark ness for the purpose. Presumably the jibes of "The Record" represent the opposition to the innovation of a large section of undergraduate, opinion...
...scholarly paraphernalia is adequate and thorough as was to be expected from so expert a commentator. Some space might have been found for a discussion of Shakspere's relation to Lyly--not in the 'Pinch him' song of Falstaff's malaise where the comment suffices, but in the 'Hark! Hark! the lark' aubade from Cymbeline. The gloss ignores Trico's song in Campaspe...
...record of Larry Noble's Yale outfit. Experts hold up hopes for the future by saying that Coach Stubbs is bringing the local group along slowly and that it will reach its peak of efficiency at the crucial moment, when the Blue skaters might well be burned out. They hark back to performances in the dim and not so dim past, to final series in amateur and pro ranks in which a whirlwind pace has been maintained to the final hurdle. At that point, they say, the spent leaders have tripped and fallen...