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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...time to act and not to theorize. As the late President said so cogently himself--"I had to act quickly and I did--and we are now building the canal." Yes, and today that greatest of engineering feats is a fait accompli. This almost insuperable accomplishment is one of the great monuments of President Roosevelt's Administration and one of the least things we can do in his memory is to give the great waterway his great name...
...choose their First and Second Marshals. In the elections held for Marshals last Tuesday a tie for First Marshal resulted between Henry Corwin Flower, Jr., and Robert Ellsworth Gross, and it was therefore decided that another vote should be cast for these two men. Of these two men the one obtaining the larger number of votes will be First Marshal, and the other, Second Marshal...
...made, we are met with the query: "would you have gymnastics and athletics ranked on the same scale as Latin or Greek or any other academic subject"? If not what becomes of the elective system? If students were allowed to substitute a physical course--so called--for an academic one, would they not all choose a physical course, and thus lower the standard for a degree? Concerning the value of any single academic course when compared with a course in gymnastics or athletics as a preparation for a life's work at this thing I do not care to express...
...with the faculty through the department of physical education. Unnecessary expenses are to be cut down by curtailing extravagant salaries for coaches and the expense and extent of trips. "Secret practice" and "scouting" will be eliminated. The general decrease in the number of games to be played by any one team, and the reduction of the cost of admission to games for members of the competing colleges will be effected. It is planned to have three or four teams represent Princeton in each sport to compete with teams of equal calibre of other colleges. The entire plan is an effort...
...equipment for student organizations we must admit that the special functions which the Union once fulfilled are now to a large extent better fulfilled elsewhere. The CRIMSON has moved to more adequate quarters in a building of its own. The Reading Rooms in Widener Library naturally present themselves to one's mind before the Reading Room in the Union. As a gathering place for out of town students and for occasional class meetings it scarcely justifies itself. Some new function for it should be discovered...