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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...schools or endowed academies. It is only recently that Harvard has, been receiving fully half her Freshmen from the free public high schools. In the state universities and those where entrance is by certificate instead of by examination, the proportion of students from the free public schools is very much greater. The result is that these schools are rapidly becoming of much more interest to college men. But they have always been of very vital interest to the nation, because in them the great majority of the people have received whatever schooling has come to them. They have served...
...battle Invariably produces a certain number of men who distinguish themselves by heroic service. The world has learned to expect such results from soldiers, and therefore it reads of the frequent awards for valor to them without surprise. The rarity with, which civiliane. receive such honors however, causes a much deeper impression upon the mind when these events do occur. Hence, America will pause longer and more approvingly than usual over the news that Frank Herbert Simonds '00, was decorated a knight of the Legion of Honor in Paris on Saturday...
...country will be much more willing, we suspect, to let President Wilson go over there and run things, after he ceases to be President, than it will be to have him assume for the United States Government now an undertaking which will cost so much in money and in the civil and military outfit necessary. WATERBURY AMERICAN...
...meeting of the canvassing teams yesterday afternoon D. C. Hawkins '20, in speaking to the collectors emphasized the fact that the students of the University are being called upon for money much less this year than in the last two, when there have been so many different financial campaigns...
...effect of their sounds. What applies in editorial writing applies in the every day college course. No matter whether it is in English composition or Greek translation, if one can tell his story in straight-forward language, instead of ranting about a "virulent obsession," one has a much better opportunity of gaining his instructor's good will...