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...Bernie Friedman of West Philadelphia, from William Tatem Tilden III (nephew), of Haverford, Pa., who was coached by his uncle between sets: the Middle States junior tennis championship...
...will retire from her presidency. Other mission examiners will be: Professor William Ernest Hocking of Harvard (chairman); President Clarence Augustus Barbour of Brown University; Dean Frederic Campbell Woodward of the University of Chicago; Dr. William Pierson Merrill of Manhattan's Brick Presbyterian Church; Professor Rufus Matthew Jones of Haverford College; Dean Henry Spencer Houghton of the University of Iowa College of Medicine; Dean Charles Phillips Emerson of the University of Indiana School of Medicine; President Arlo Ayres Brown of Drew University, Madison, N.J.; Dean Albert Russell Mann of New York State's College of Agriculture at Cornell University...
...democracy can lead boys to college in great numbers, educators still complain that, like the proverbial horse and the watering trough, it cannot make them think. "Too many men go to college without any real fitness for higher education or capacity of profiting by it," declares President Comfort of Haverford College. His answer to the question is a concentration on "quality rather than quantity", more individual attention to a smaller group. Other conventional panaceas are: to raise scholastic requirements before and during college, or, secondly, to effect, by contact with culture, a change of undergraduate heart...
...Haverford College, in Pennsylvania, the oldest of the American Quaker colleges, is preparing to celebrate its centenary, and the addresses made at its convocation ceremonies are significant of a trend among American educators. "The country needs an exhibit of quality rather than quantity in education," said President Comfort, announcing a new program which will give every older student the individual attention hitherto reserved for honors students, and the address of President Lowell of Harvard echoed the thought...
...perforce tending to emphasize the utilitarian aspects of education which a mass electorate immediately recognizes. In the East the experiments, including the house plan, at the great universities, have held the spotlight of public attention. But the work of the smaller colleges which, as President Lowell says of Haverford, have been beacon lights on the road, sometimes go unnoticed. We forget that Harvard and Yale and Princeton made their national fame and established their enduring glory when they were no larger than Haverford today...