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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Kent, with nine candidates at the examinations last summer, led by a very narrow margin Loomis School at Windsor, Conn., which has five candidates, and St. Mark's School, Southboro, which had 19 candidates. Only schools which contribute five or more candidates are eligible to compete for the trophy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KENT AWARDED P. B. K. SCHOLASTIC TROPHY | 12/7/1921 | See Source »

...plan fulfills all the purpose of our present award further mark it is a more accurate basis of judgement; and it encourages serious minded students to continue in college a good preparatory record. No doubt the Phi Beta Kappa prize fulfills a merited purpose; but this purpose is narrow. It is to be hoped that another award may be established which will be based on a less limited test of the training given by the school...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PREPARATORY RECORDS | 12/7/1921 | See Source »

...from this unworthy calling. Sermons on the terrors of a Drunkard's Damnation, pleadings of father and older brother, even censure from the College office will have small influence. More effectual will be the attitude of those their fellow-students who did not go out of the straight and narrow path for the festivities of one occasion, however great it was. Over the wretched ones who have had their first drunken debauch we can no longer be mirthful; we must show them that such is not the stuff of which true life is made. We must remind the erring that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 11/30/1921 | See Source »

...approaching a practical American adaptation of the English university system. Barnard will continue to develop ninety-five per cent of its students into good, all-round, intelligent human being and citizens, trained intellectually, physically and socially; but it will also avoid allowing the chosen five per cent to become narrow-minded specialists. For, says Dean Gildersleeve, "we will admit into the course only students with such intellectual ability and interests that they can absorb enough knowledge of philosophy and economics, or example, to make them intelligent citizens, without taking definite prescribed courses in these subjects...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SELECTIVE EDUCATION | 11/15/1921 | See Source »

With two defeats, some are ready to say the Yale game "is won" by the Elis Not so! A review of the past games shows but a narrow margin of victory for Harvard's opponents-a margin that might have been overcome if the Crimson had been offered a "break" or two. The Yale game may reach us our desire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 11/8/1921 | See Source »

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