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There will be new tryouts next Friday to select teams for the Exeter and the Boston College debates. Those men who once make a team will be ineligible for further competition until the Harvard-Yale-Princeton debate. This plan was adopted in order to give as many candidates as possible an opportunity to participate in intercollegiate debating...
...Advocate has announced that it will act as preliminary judge, and select three Faculty members to act as final judges of the Harvard entries. All entries should be typewritten but stories written in longhand on one side of the paper will be accepted. Story reserves the right to allow reprints of any entries in short story anthologies...
...middle of March, all members of the class of '39 must select their field of concentration, and it was to assist the class in making this choice that the Committee has decided to ask men in different subjects to talk over the problems involved...
President Conant is convinced that the records of the Prize Scholars in college prove that men of sufficient ability can be selected from secondary schools. He feels also that the present condition of affairs is no more than a beginning, declaring, "a very large number of promising young men throughout the nation are ready to apply for such scholarships, once they are established on a country-wide basis . . . with adequate care it is possible to select the best material...
Statistics are assuredly not flattering in surveying the contribution made by the selected schools to the government, either past or present. The sum total of twenty-seven United States Senators, one Supreme Court Justice, and one President (out of twelve selected school's) should cause a blush to come to the face of every loyal Grotonian were it not for the inescapable fact that the American government, by its fundamental structure and development, has much more to do with the situation than any failure on the schools themselves. A government of forty-eight particularistic and jealously provincial states is hardly...