Word: one
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cocky, colorful, but competent Frank Reagan of Penn missed being a unanimous backfield choice by but one vote. The daredevil Quaker did not have much chance to show his wares in Cambridge, but even his brief appearance in the game impressed the Crimson squad...
Such an attitude comes like a breath of much- needed fresh air in an academic world grown somewhat musty with too much concern for the mechanical means of education and too little attention to the long-run ends. Though one can perhaps charge Mr. Frost and those of his kind with trying to sensationalize education, so passive has the intellectual role of college students become that it takes considerable effort to jar them out of the well-marked grooves in which they slide along and to force them to do independent thinking . . . Fed several times daily on a diet...
...One more recommendation of the Committee of Eight in regard to Faculty personnel was put into effect yesterday with the announcement by the University that John M. Russell has been appointed Assistant to the President...
...position will be similar to the "Director of Placement" recommended by the Committee of Eight as one solution of the tenure problem, and it was announced that he will study the problem of placing teachers when he arrives in Cambridge, besides serving on a University committee on educational placement to be appointed soon...
...element. This renders them more bold and enterprising; this leads them to neglect the confined occupations of the land. They see and converse with a variety of people; their intercourse with mankind becomes extensive. The sea inspires them with a love of traffic, a desire of transporting produce from one place to another . . ." --Crevecoeur...