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...Electives and petitions for such permission must be in the hands of the Secretary on or before Tuesday, September 28. After that day no courses chosen now and beginning in the first half-year may be changed unless for some important reason, such as a change in the elective pamphlet...
...appointed to the position of Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences in Toledo University, which position he held until 1917, when he was again requested to resign. During the war he was on trial in the United States Court, for treasonable utterances contained in his pamphlet, "The Great Madness," but was acquitted. He is an accomplished orator and debater, and is at present lecturing in the Rand School of New York City and the Boston School of Social Science. He is the author of "Social Sanity" and other notable books on socialism...
...settled in Antwerp in 1549. Tradition affirms that he was first interested in typography as a result of a wounded arm. His workmanship earned for him a reputation as the best printer of his time. In 1562, while Plantain himself was absent, his workmen printed an heretical pamphlet, as a result of which his movable equipment was seized and sold. He succeeded in establishing a new press which was later destroyed by the Spaniards who plundered the town...
When "education" is mentioned, the average undergraduate thinks of a number of unhappy incidents of his past life and tries to change the subject. Possibly, at the beginning of a half-year, he notices that the Elective Pamphlet contains courses under a Department of Education; but when he observes that one meets at nine and another at four-thirty, and that "reports and theses" are required, he loses interest. He is too busy dodging an education for himself to worry about providing one for somebody else...
Last night we sat for some hours with the grass-green pamphlet, and the List of Studies for 1919-20 before us. The grass-green pamphlet is a delightful field for wandering with so many, many gateways. First we entered at the front door quite properly and climbed laboriously through department after department all the way from Hebrew E1. to Med. Sci. 3 whatever that may be. It profited us nothing. Nothing seemed in the least more interesting than anything else, except possibly French 15 hf, which bore the meaty legend "Tu. at 9." Getting up at 9 once...