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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While these experiments are still going on and will continue, the School is well past the point where in its total activities it can be considered experimental whether judged by its appeal to students, by the practical and professional value of its training as shown by the accomplishments and attitudes of its graduates, by the demand for its product by business men, by the contributions of its Faculty to an important area of human knowledge and endeavor, by the support which it has attracted from industry and from business men, or by its promise of further accomplishment in all these...
...transfer of the same ethics to intercollegiate sport holds possibilities pleasant to contemplate. Certainly it is wrong to encourage the men who lead our youth astray by returning their athletes' salaries to them, and in the past there has been no way of escape from the old adage, "once a professional always a professional." A study of the recent French strategy immediately suggests the possibility of asking youthful violators of the gentlemen's agreement to turn over their summer earnings to the funds of their Alma Mater's athletic association and begin life over again. Besides greatly improving the quality...
...editorial condemned the two noted paintings which have hung in Widener's walls for the past six years, and were placed there as a war memorial, on the grounds that they are "merely war posters," and symbols of a war hatred "for which there is no place in the library except in history books...
Yale has recognized the value of good publicity in the appointment of a director to disseminate news through the established channels. The news in the past has been despatched efficiently and with a normal timeliness, yet a vague misapprehension seems at times to shroud the release of what is, to undergraduate eyes at least, important information. The commonalty is then left to settle issues for itself, while struggling in a slough of conjecture as to what may or may not happen...
...superfluous to point out the disastrous results which have attended opportunistic policies of publicity in universities of the past. We have only to look northward to Cambridge to see the most recent example. The sum total of this Fabian policy is always doubt and misapprehension, giving rise to all sorts of misinformation and surmise. Yale owes a debt to her graduates and undergraduates alike in keeping them well informed as to current university procedures...