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Apart from its special features, Yale's problem is that of every large university situated in a small city. Especially in times of depression, the demand that the universities forego, in whole or part, their special privileges, is bound to recur. Harvard's "gentleman's agreement" with Cambridge sprang from a similar situation and a similar feeling. The material and intellectual advantages which a locality derive from the presence of a great university are not sufficient, in times of economic stress, to compensate for the loss of revenue from the tax exemptions of wealthy institutions. The pressure of taxation...
...essentials of good sportsmanship. If this phenomenon were evidenced only at Princeton in such recent unpleasant flurries of booing as at the Yale hockey game and the Penn basketball game, we might possibly have regarded it as a momentary and localized lapse from gentlemanly conduct which would not soon recur. But with disturbing remembrance of similar demonstrations at baseball games last spring suddenly came a shower of editorial comment from our contemporaries, which aroused us to a realization that this "lapse" is widespread. At Oregon University, Yale, Brown, Columbia and numerous others, undergraduate and alumni editors are "viewing with alarm...
...move from old quarters to new was the greatest cause of the deficit's increase. That expense will not recur. And the new building has 21 floors of office space from which rentals are calculated to help defray the expenses of the big auditorium downstairs where, too, the increased number of seats means bigger takings at the box office. Last season 306,018 persons paid to see the curtain rise, compared to 272,006 in the old house the year before. Receipts totaled $1,230,224 as against $948,469 in 1928-29. Average price of tickets rose 53?...
Earthquake Zones. Why do earthquakes so often recur in the same places? Writes the erudite Montessus, whose world seismological map is speckled with nearly 160.000 quakes: "The earth's crust trembles almost only along two narrow bands which lie along great circles of the earth, the Mediterranean, or Alpino-Caucasian- Himalayan Circle; and the Circum-Pacific or Ando-Japanese-Malayan Circle." Fifty-three percent of all recorded earthquakes have occurred on the first of these, the Eurasian earthquake belt (see map, p. 23). Neatly tucked in the western end of this belt is much-troubled Naples...
...prodigies nor biological experts nor classical scholars. He is utilizing the educative values inherent in his subject as stimuli to the increase of intellectual power. He is not making technical details an end in themselves, but is guiding the pupils in the discovery and re-discovery of principles which recur in different aspects and in other connections. Finally, as opportunity presents itself, he directs attention to points of contact with other subject fields and enables his pupils to perceive through concrete examples the relation between the different departments of learning. Concentration will be impossible without continuity; it will...