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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Word received from Yale stated that 24 hours before closing time the Yale men has overapplied for the boat race by some 450, and that the usual last minute rush would mean that that number of over applications might be tripled...
...this must not mean that the work done in the first part of each term is untouched by the examinations. There is a danger here that without a check, easy-going students may postpone the study and reading which should be done throughout the period of formal teaching, thus leaving it to be done in the reading period. A student might therefore find himself saddled in the reading period with a double amount of work: that which should have been done in conjunction with his daily lectures and classes, and that which is assigned for the reading period...
...sounds almost shocking, yet it is true, that the church does not have as much faith as business." Business courts Change. The church fears it. Business employs pure scientists for research that may mean scrapping not only millions in factories and material but entire attitudes of mind as well. Pure scientists, above pelf and profit, are "the mystics of the modern world." Business sets them free to provoke Change because it knows tomorrow will be different from today. "The church is AFRAID" that tomorrow may be different...
...Your action was mean and lacking in sportsmanship. You owe Mr. Crane an apology...
...times when they cease motion entirely leaving the inhabitants of these imposing chateaus the privilege either of walking up the dingy, tortuous flights or of remaining below stairs. Therefore such lamentations as those from Middlebury are superfluous--for it is written that every two stories of grandiloquent brick mean two of painful laboring, upward and onward; the flamboyant luxury of "student hotels" usually assume the docile modesty of college owned dormitories...