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...degree, have not had an equivalent training, or who are candidates for the degree of A.B. or S.B. in the University. Two prizes of $50 each are offered for translations into Attic Greek and Latin of prescribed passages in C. H. Moore's "Religious Thought of the Greeks," and Macaulay's "Critical and Historical Essays," respectively. A prize of $100 is offered to all other resident students for an original essay in either Greek or Latin of not less than three thousand words on any subject chosen by the competitor, written by a holder of an academic degree...
Singularly fitting today are the words uttered by Macaulay when he urged "Reform in order that you may preserve." In the past year we have witnessed repeated examples of the inability of the machinery at Washington to cope with pressing situations. It is not that we have had ignorant or incapable officials in positions of responsibility, but that the means open to those officials are inadequate for the efficient execution of government work. The various departments have expanded to such an extent that the duties of one, overlapping, often interfere with the work of another; and those duties themselves have...
...essentially like a pickle factory in this respect; it is to be judged by its product. And an examination of the careers of the men who have studied the humanities demonstrated conclusively that these studies have survived their usefulness. Any system that turns out such intellectual pigmies as Lord Macaulay or a Gladstone deserves just what the twentieth century gives it--derision. A. L. GARDNER...
...George Macaulay Trevelyan, speaking in the Union last night, gave a brilliant description of present social and political conditions in the Balkan peninsula. Coming almost directly from Servia, where he has travelled and studied conditions during the past few months, Mr. Trevelyan told of the terrible epidemic of typhus fever which is now raging there, and of the courageous work which is being done to combat it by British and American doctors and nurses...
...George Macaulay Trevelyan, one of the best known of English historical writers, will give a lecture in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock. His subject will be "Servia in War Time...