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Dates: during 1910-1919
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McLeod prepared for College at Malden High School, where he played second base on the nine for three years. In the spring of 1916; he held the same position on the University Freshman team...
...answer to a letter of inquiry as to his attitude from Mr. Will H. Hays, Republican National Chairman, Mr. Root now presents six constructive suggestions in the form of amendments to the Covenant of Paris. He suggests an agency for settling disputes between the "High Contracting Powers," conferences to be called under the League between stated dates to revise the Covenant, and review the conditions of International Law, securing the rights of nations to decide purely internal questions for themselves, authorizing a commission to supervise reduction of armaments, and permitting conditional withdrawal from the League...
...passed when the colleges could lay down entrance requirements unquestioned; high schools have taken the aggressive, and show a growing tendency to try to dictate the terms on which they will furnish their product. But it is to be hoped they will not try to break down the colleges' qualitative standards not to force acceptance even of preparation of good quality in improper subjects. President Lowell points out that the existing "diversity of admission requirements and curricula" is great, and "gives the boy a chance to go to the institution where he will get the maximum education of which...
While the university's place is in the van of progress, her work is advisory not directory. She can maintain her high place only by the careful notice of change and appreciation of conditions. If she is sluggish, men will go elsewhere for their ideals; if she caters too readily to the impatient haste of the day, men will no longer be inspired by her. The importance of keeping their curriculum in complete accord with the temper of the age merits this arduous task before the universities...
...Freshmen have been victorious in four of their seven meets, winning from Huntington, Malden Y. M. C. A., Brookline High, and English High, but losing to Yale, Andover, and M. I. T. Both the University and 1922 teams have been handicapped because practice could not be held at the University, but had to be carried on in the Cambridge Y. M. C. A. pool...