Word: presented
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...present entrance examinations are not the final means of selecting college men. Out of justice to the candidates for a degree, some examination for admittance must be made to prevent men from making large outlays of money and time only to find themselves incapable of keeping up with the work required. After using several methods the comprehensive examination system at present seems to be the most practical for determining the candidate's ability and at the same time for maintaining a high standard for college work, Columbia has gone one step further in adopting psychological tests as well as examining...
...decline and present condition of the Union are too well known to need elucidation, and it is necessary that some plan be devised for placing this institution in the place of honor in which it belongs. Construction is essential rather than destruction. It would be advisable, therefore, for us all to shake off our state of indifference and consider carefully issues and plans concerning this important problem of reconstruction...
...ever come when civilized nations will arbitrate what part of their population shall die," said Professor Edward Warren at the Law School reception last night. Professor Warren said that although he had the highest hope in the League of Nations yet the laws of evolution and the Malthusian theory present an almost impossible problem. He thought that to substitute "the force of law" for the "law of force" would "tax human ingenuity to the utmost." Yet he believed that in time the race might overcome more of its primeval instincts as it had conquered some in the past...
...that he is really a part of the University until he has heard "Copey" read. And once having been present at one of the readings he follows the path to them, beaten by the countless footsteps of men in former years, as often as the privilege is given, which, like all desirable events, comes far too rarely...
...groping with conservative haste among a multitude of bills designed to relieve the situation, the curtailment of war industries and the rapid discharge of soldiers is adding thousands each week to the already over-supplied labor market. When we add to these two potent sources of unemployed the present inevitable halt in the industrial machinery while it is changing from war to peace operation, the problems of relief become both grave and complex in the extreme...