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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nine to two was the score of Harvard's victory over Holy Cross nearly two weeks ago. In that game at Soldiers Field Davidson was knocked off the hill in the third inning by the Crimson batters. Comparative scores mean little or nothing in sports, but the results of these two encounters might seem to indicate improvement of the University nine that would give it an edge in today's game...
...Damrosch rose to the occasion to declare Sir Henry "foremost conductor of Great Britain." Reflecting perhaps what Sir Henry's work would be like if it were like his own, he added: "Think what it will mean to the farmers. . . . I am not a scientist with sufficient knowledge to look into the future and see what it may encompass, so I merely say that 'sufficient unto the day is the achievement thereof...
...very well to demand stories of college life from college authors. The bitter truth, however, is that such efforts mean little or nothing either as fiction or fact. There is a thing known as a sense of proportion and it is not entirely out of place in literature. Practically any college student who has passed his elementary courses in English composition can sit down and describe the life around him-as he see it. And the consequence in the majority of cases is extremely uninteresting and also inaccurate. His proximity to his material makes proper vision impossible; what he sees...
...editorial on the throwing of water from the windows of the dormitories would seem at first glance to be futile as well as trivial. Yet it is neither. It is a matter which can mean much for Columbia's standing in the eyes of people living in the immediate vicinity...
Such men there are, however, and when university governments realize that their characters form as valuable an addition as the degree paraphernalia which has come to be essential to good positions, the quality of the universities will be improved. This does not mean that any scholastic excellencies need be sacrificed merely for the sake of a man who is blessed with a sympathetic touch with his students. But there are cases in which the two are combined and it is in the hands of those men that the future of American university teaching rests. The increase in quantity in students...