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...Such a statement may seem to many blindly optimistic. To those who urge that our Universities revert to the outlook of the Middle Ages it will appear not so much optimistic as outmoded and heretical...
...Charles H. Smith, Jr., member of the faculty at the University of Colorado, and a Miss Rose Farrel. Upon their deaths, the estate went to Providence, with the provision that in the event the city failed to live up to the terms of the will, the estate should revert to the University...
...will does revert to the University, the estate will be used to provide scholarships for graduates of Providence high schools. In the event there are no suitable candidates, the estate may be used for any other purpose that the University deems...
...about eight days every year, the football Saturdays of the fall, the whole tribe of them give up this Eastern tomfoolery and revert to their true Middlewestern background. For deep in the heart of every honest product of the states between the western Pennsylvania border and the eastern Colorado line lies a loyalty to his own local football aggregation, a loyalty that transcends any artificial enthusiasm he may have worked up for Harvard during his undergraduate career...
...Metropolitan system or will sink wells to take care of the deficiency. Naturally, the Board does not wish to give up its present system and pay out $185,000 to join the Metropolitan system. It is possible that Cambridge could join the system temporarily "for the duration," and revert to its own system when the crisis passes...