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With the recent vote of the Athletic Council of the University of Illinois that henceforth all sports at that university are to be "major" sports, the much discussed problem of the place of athletics in the college curriculum takes a new and interesting turn. In September of this year the regulation will become active, and from then on major letters will be awarded to the members of all athletic teams at Illinois. The decision was reached after consultation with the minor sport captains, the opinion of the majority inclining apparently toward the view that to award major insignia...
...gaudy qualities that best suit his vein. In hard times like these, when Mah Jong, Princeton, the crossword puzzle, channel swimming, Lindbergh, Mayor Thompson and Hickman are no longer news, he is obliged to seize whatever the day offers. Such understanding of an old, yet somehow ever new, problem explains the consideration of the Reading Period in the current issuse of the Lampoon...
Tilden, Hunter, Lott, and Chandler, will make up this country's Davis Cup team, Coach Cowles believes. Tilden and Hunter would play in the doubles together, and Lott would aid Tilden in the singles. Chandler is the problem in the make-up of this year's team, but, if he can return to the form he displayed two years ago. Coach Cowles thinks that he will have no trouble in making the team. When questioned as to the chances of Hennessey, Van Ryan, Jones and Doeg, Coach Cowles shook his head, and said that all played a good game...
Headmaster Irvine "of Mercersburg interpolated ironically: "Each generation, of course, has its quota of loafers who will always be a Headmaster's hardest problem and who will make instructors earn their salaries," but he too thought the Modern Schoolboy works "more earnestly...
...work is the result of a meeting of the National Research Council last spring, at which a report on a survey of the field of industrial medicine was made. The purpose of the report was to find the most pressing problem of the day concerning health in industry. It was discovered that the conditions in the granite cutting industry was in immediate need of attention. Accordingly a committee with Dr. D. L. Edsall, Dean of the Medical School, and Professor Drinker as heads formed...