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...interest in all this arises from the fact that I myself am an Emerson graduate, one of my brothers has been graduated from the school, and a second is still in it. The last mentioned followed the herd struck too, but not with his parents' consent. M. THURSTON WARD West Lafayette, Ind. P. S. Be sure and give Purdue all credit due for its performance against dear old 'Arvard...
...night restaurant, open from 6 o'clock till after midnight, takes care of 200. There is also a cafeteria where 100 members of the office force eat daily. Below the Faculty Club is a special dining hall where a student may invite women guests by making reservations with Mrs. Herd on the first floor of Morgan Hall. This dining hall has been temporarily closed for repairs; but will be re-opened shortly...
...hurly-burly over the post war rush of American youth to the educational institutions of the country, a great deal has been said about limiting enrollment, selective admission regulations, and other machinery which would enable the universities and colleges to protect themselves from the thundering herd. Dean Gauss points out that much of this responsibility of selection might well be delegated to the parents of the potential applicant. He then goes on to show by means of very pertinent and quite informal examples of individual cases, the misfortune of social maladjustment in college resulting from the attitude of parents...
Harboring ones individuality requires as infinite care as harboring a precious jewel and not the least worthy guard is self reliance. In a large group of men, such as at a college or university, there is often a species of gregarious frenzy which might be termed the herd spirit. It is the Crimson's belief that there is less of this mania evidenced at Harvard than at any other institution, but no college can be entirely free from its ravages. The preventative lies in each case with the man himself, for every man has his own means of fortifying...
...Rudmose Brown. The Arctic, he felt, will be of great importance when economic pressure sends American and European herdsmen to replace the vanishing Eskimo on the five million square miles of treeless Arctic tundra, to raise billions of sheep, reindeer, musk ox, caribou. The possibilities of such herding are already indicated by the half million reindeer that have been reared in northern Alaska from a herd of 1,300 introduced in 1902. The Antarctic will always be less important than the Arctic economically, thinks, Dr. Brown, but it offers what remains in the world of spectacular pioneering. Huge "missing stretches...