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...recent editorial from the Philadelphia "Public Ledger" is printed in full below. It is an example either of a desperate effort to fill space or of a deliberate attack on the University, based on conjecture. Dealing with the letter which President Hibben sent out to parents concerning the ownership of automobiles by students, it pictures the authorities driven to despair by youthful prodigals roaring about the campus in high-powered motors...
...Ledger" pictures many of our institutions of higher learning going to ruin because "the undergraduates are rapidly taking control of the universities out of the hands of the faculties" compare this with the very letter on which the tirade is based. The President says: "The success of the Honor System in examinations and the high moral standards of Princeton men are due to this justified confidence in student government in all personal matters...
...place he occupies in the long range of opinion from the highest of high protection to the freest of free trade. Many men who call themselves practical have gone astray by lack of economic study. This deficiency a scholar like Professor Taussig will be able to supply. --Philadelphia Public Ledger...
...inclination to select the courses that are of a manual as well as mental nature, realizing the ideal of Dr. Eliot, who said that he would not rest content till most of the studies called on the student to use his hands as well as his head. --Philadelphia Public Ledger...
...CRIMSON is inclined to agree with the Ledger's view, which takes into account the curious psychology that puts the strong arm in a higher place than the well developed brain. Under precent though not necessarily normal conditions, the Phi Beta Kapa trophy may serve as an incentive to increased effort in the field of studies, but it is not apt to reduce materially the importance many sub-Freshmen attach to athletic ability and achievements. The idea of such a trophy, is, nevertheless, a good one, and the competition for it and its final award will be watched with interest...