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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...better known recent members of the University still have some currency among present undergraduates, it would be of value to keep the lists already posted up to date. For, except in the case of men who have achieved wide fame, the names of graduates of the last few years mean more to present occupants than those of twenty or more years...
...shores in greater numbers. One important effect of the war is expected to be the freeling of America from the intellectual domination of European scholarship. Another result should be an increased number of students in the universities of a land unhampered by the hardships of a reconstruction. All this means a wider influence for American thought; it should also mean a broader view for the American student toward the ideas of other races...
...Venizelos, Viviani, Poincare, . . . were presented to certain college classes, with the result that Venizelos appeared as anything from a French general to a Mexican rebel. . . . The Dean of Bowdoin questions whether students of New England colleges are very steady newspaper readers. . . . The trouble is that if the proper names mean nothing, the reading is of limited good. The fault is in the student's own background. All these colleges are maintaining departments in modern history. . . . What are we to think of methods of teaching which shelve the present for the past, and of professors who imagine they are teaching history...
...later won the game for his team with a hard shot past York, the Yale goal tender. The game was especially interesting in view of the fact that Princeton had lost to Yale in a practice game during the holidays, after two victories, which was taken by some to mean that Yale had passed her rivals in development...
That summer baseball be entirely barred from the college athlete is also apt to meet with considerable objection. There seems to be two reasons for this. One is that it will simply mean that some of the best ball players will try to play despite the rule and this will result in deceit. The other is the idea maintained by many that it is unfair to the good ball player to deprive him of the right to play in the summer for his board and expenses, if another athlete is allowed to earn money in other forms of employment which...