Word: posted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Boston Post thinks the Roosevelt straw vote was due to partiality for a graduate. "College students," says the Post, "have a way of being loyal to an alumnus of their institution. Therefore Princeton, as exemplified by President Wilson, and Brown, as represented by Justice Hughes, were not likely to Da favored above Harvard itself. But it is worth nothing that in an institution where Republican sentiment has long been strong President Wilson should have received 591 votes, only 69 less than the total for the most popular man Harvard has turned out in generations...
...Yale News reprints an editorial from the New York Post, entitled "Harvard and Wall Street," which expresses disappointment at what it considers the "academic" character of the new Ph.D. in Business Economics. The Post sees nothing about laboratory work in the description of courses and assumes that none is required. "It is but too evident," the editorial continues, "that our most advanced universities still look upon their business courses as they have long looked upon their law courses--as convenient means of imparting knowledge merely. If Harvard wants to make a hit, let her induce some millionaire...
...Post's sweeping aside of the Business School as academic is ludicrous; but the School is young, and there is some excuse for ignorance. The Law School, on the other hand, is not so young; its case system and law clubs can hardly be called merely convenient means of imparting knowledge. Such traditional generalizations, classing all activities of universities as impractical and academic are getting tiresome. Ignorance accounts for the writing of such an editorial. Was that also the reason for reprinting...
...Post Office.--The Cambridge post office will be open until 10 o'clock on April...
...Lectures on "Confucianism." II. "Confucianism as Distinguished from Some Post-Confucian 'Heretical' Schools," by Professor Hattori, in Emerson...