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This new feature of the Physical Education program is the outgrowth of an effort on the part of the Department to extend to new men as many electives as possible in the realm of sport. On days when the ice is in condition men may substitute skating for their usual exercise, this system tending not only to afford unusual freedom in choice of time but also to relieve the monotony of the regular physical training periods. Attention of Freshmen taking advantage of this system is called to the fact that although the blue-book is up only between the hours...
...this is the outgrowth of a condition which disgraces popular government--the fact that the "bigger" men, those best qualified to judge cases involving business matters, are only to ready to shirk jury duty on the least excuse. Jury-dodging is one of the easiest things in the world; a plea if important business, physical weakness, or travel--excuses which the judge can scarcely question--are easy roads to freedom. But such evasion is sure to lead back to the slacker himself; if he refuses service himself, how can he expect a competent jury when his own case comes...
...after the House of Commons. Our debaters do not model themselves after the House of Representatives that would be too deadly but after the best law courts. It is probable that debaters of each country could learn something from the other. But each system of debate is the natural outgrowth of its own college environment. New York Evening Post
...same thing, according to Senator Ladd, will happen with respect to the coal and ore mines, natural water power, and other public utilities, now owned and managed by private corporations. The trouble will not begin necessarily with the workers, as an outgrowth of the labor question. It may originate entirely with the Public, but it will probably start by the Public and the workers combining the inefficient and minority-benefitting corporations...
...understanding depiction of real people, one that grasps the attention of the reader in sprite of himself. "Contact" by Frances Noyes Hart less certainly deserves its high rating, but, at the same time, the motive that actuated its selection, is clear. It is a story of the spiritualistic outgrowth of the war, highly imaginative, but more than slightly difficult to understand...