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...good many people besides the students at Princeton University would do well to ponder what President Hibben, in the course of the chapel address with which he opened the new term, told his boys about the "movies". He had warned them that, in full accord as he was with athletic interests and campus activities, they are not the chief reason for going to college. Then he picked out one "activity" as having little of his sympathy. "It is not really an activity," he said, and went...
...writing our virgin editorial, we naturally attempt to ponder on the principles of composition. These three: coherence, unity and emphasis; but the greatest of these is when to stop. Discuss the athletic situation; expound the intricacies of trilogical cooperation of malfeasance of subsidized athletes, of the situation in one's own college--but then to stop. Consider the tutors of the English department, their merits, demerits, and absence, and stop. Stop before so much as considering the advisability of compulsory Chapel. Expostulate on the pseudo-stone pillars on University Hall now painted white and palpably wooden; on the stone steps...
...Allies have been driven back and even now are struggling at a point beyond which the German hordes may possibly pour to the sea. The war has been indefinitely prolonged, and its final verdict has been pressed into an indefinite future. The most hopeful of us must stop to ponder over so dark an outlook of the world's affairs...
...remarks. "We must have reality of faith, conviction that the hand of God has marked out a path for us to follow," he said. "We cannot tell what may happen. It is even conceivable that we may lose this war, and that is a thing for you to ponder well. Yet even so, great things have come from periods of loss, of chaos and of defeat...
...statements of thirty-four separate official departments, from that of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to that of the Medical School Bureau of Appointments. It would be well for those who know only their own department, or at the most their own and two or three others, to ponder on the fact that the official work of the University is divided into thirty-four branches, of which the College is only one; and then to think of the multitudinous student activities, formal and informal, and the five thousand individuals who go to make up Harvard. Is there any wonder...