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...connection with the liberalization of college requirements, Dean Hawkes of Columbia University brings out an important point in saying that the development of "a keen sense of values, moral, social, esthetic," is the duty of the college to its students. He believes in the inculcating of judgment rather than "the handing down of formulas and dicta from the teacher's desk." The reason for the intellectual level of colleges being higher than twenty years ago is attributed by Dean Hawkes to the difference in the collegiate educational methods. Today colleges are breaking away more and more from traditional requirements...
...bank. Last week Southland President Sidney Goldberg Simmons told the entire trade that, "like a giant octopus whose tentacles envelop and crush the object of its prey, the N. P. M. A. is slowly but surely undermining the foundation of a great industry. . . . Our vigilance has been too keen to render us a martyr to the cause ... if the rights are taken from the people, then we can expect no lesser fate than India with its strife and turmoil...
...costume was prescribed for all undergraduates which consisted of a "cost of blue gray, with waistcoat and breeches of the same colour, or of a black, a keen, or an olive colour." Freshmen were required to wear coats with plain button holes, and the cuffs could not have any buttons. The second-year men, however, were allowed the privilege of buttons on their cuffs. The coats of the Juniors had "Cheap frogs to the button holes, except the button holes of the cuffs," whereas the Seniors could have "frogs" on all their buttonholes...
This series of contests is one result of efforts at both colleges to persuade as many boys as possible to be participants in athletics, instead of spectators. Experience at Cambridge shows that while the sub-varsity groups are typically indifferent about practice, they are keen on playing in real games. And waving a blue sweater in their faces is enough to stir the crimson blood in every mother's son of them! The Boston Herald
...several years surgeons of the Mayo Clinic "have been becoming more & more fearful of operating on the keen, nervous, active, hard-living, 'go-getting', sales-manager type of man" who comes to them with an intestinal ulcer. That type is apt to develop another ulcer soon after the operation. Especially is this so if the man is of Jewish ancestry. The Jew seems to be particularly subject to a severe type of recurrent ulcer. Dr. Walter Clement Alvarez, Mayo internist, makes these observations in a thoroughgoing review of peptic ulcer, published last week in the American Journal...