Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...once more they have given out the report that "no definite decision was reached on any point." The University has become quite accustomed to this lack of action on the part of this estimable committee but at the present moment when the need of action on the athletic question is vital, it is beginning to wonder where the value and usefulness of this body lies...
...Dates were considered for the spring intercollegiate contests in the different branches of sport and the question of temporary modification of the eligibility rules on account of war conditions was also taken up. A number of other matters of athletic interest were touched on in the course of the conversation, but as no definite decision was reached on any point there is no further announcement to make...
...York, N. Y., Feb. 4, 1919.--At a meeting in this city this afternoon of the athletic heads of Yale, Princeton, and the University, represented respectively by Professor Corwin, Dean McLenahan and Professor R. B. Merriman '96, the question of closer triangular athletic alliance among the three colleges was under discussion. It was believed that a closer athletic relationship would tend to form a high standard of athletic rules which would be submitted to the college athletic world on the basis of fair-play and not in a spirit of imposing their will upon other colleges. The definite decisions made...
...schools, it must be said, respond to the best of their ability, but their ability is sometimes very limited. Public institutions stumble over the question of appropriations, private institutions meet the problem of insufficient endowment. Both are usually defeated. The result is such a scale of salaries that Normal School graduates find it more profitable to serve, let us say as hotel waiters, and full-fledged college professors have to content themselves with stipends that the Brotherhood of Railroad Engineers would treat with scorn...
Learning is not and should not be made a thing of dollars and cents. We are, however, forced to consider the question of a respectable living for our teachers, of a proper opportunity for investigation, and, by investigation, of adding something to human knowledge. There are plenty of good men and women in the field of education. Indeed one wonders how so many dared face the hardships of a course of training that covers so many years and offers no immediate remuneration. If we intend to elevate our standards and make our methods more efficient we must, out of common...