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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...public schools in the past have been singularly outside the ken of college men, students, graduates, and professors alike, for the reason that students have come to college very largely from private schools or endowed academies. It is only recently that Harvard has, been receiving fully half her Freshmen from the free public high schools. In the state universities and those where entrance is by certificate instead of by examination, the proportion of students from the free public schools is very much greater. The result is that these schools are rapidly becoming of much more interest to college...
...Social Service work of Phillips Brooks House is to be carried on as successfully as in past years, a large number of new men must enroll immediately. Only one hundred men have registered this year while in years past 300 to 400 undergraduates have been actively engaged in one of the numerous branches of Social Service...
...following officers were elected: Honorary president, Dr. Benjamin Rand; president, R. G. Trotter 5g.; vice-president, A. H. Richardson, 1B.; secretary, G. E. Wilson, 3G.; treasurer, R. Davis 03.; executive committee, D. C. Hyde 2G., and H. Cartlidge, 3L. The club, which has not been active during the past four years because of the war, is planning to resume its fullactivities in the near future...
...syllabus represents the epitome of "knowledge served on a silver platter." By its use, the average undergraduate can temporarily absorb and entire term's work in three hours and, entrenched in this manner, successfully thwart the parries of the most despotic "prof." With the examination past history hew can then seek new learning in another field, entirely unhampered by a brain loaded with other ideas. And thus the four years pass most enjoyably. --Daily Princetonian...
Professor Albert Sauveur of the Metalurgical Department has just returned from France, where he has been engaged in war work during the past year. While stationed in Paris, he was in charge of the section of Metallurgy in the Technical Division of the United States Air service, the purpose of which was to solve metallurgical problems connected with aviation motors. Professor Sauveur will resume his work at the University next...