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...indicate the way in which private school men spend the time which public school men put in study. Of the thirty-six players on the football squad five were from public high schools; of the thirty-five members of the Lampoon Board two prepared at public schools; of the seventeen members of the Advocate Board four prepared at public schools; while free education has only five representatives out of a total of thirty on the Student Council, of whom three hold office by reason of membership in the Phi Beta Kappa. Almost the same percentages hold throughout all the extra...
...public schools' seventeen per cent, lead in scholarship is offset by the larger representation of private school graduates in undergraduate affairs. The boy from the endowed school shows at least that he is a good citizen of the college, and that he is concerned in maintaining its standing on a high scale as regards its publications, athletics, administration, music, and dramatics. Without honor men the college could not acquire a scholastic standing; on the other hand, without its extra-curriculum activities Harvard would not be able to function on the same basis as other American colleges...
...acting in a very large and very generous way Mr. Frick did a notable public service; and so far as Princeton, Technology, and Harvard are concerned, he greatly relieved a precarious situation. His will is truly remarkable. Of the entire estate five-sixths, or approximately one hundred and seventeen million dollars, is to be devoted solely to the interests of the general public--to charity, art, and education...
...front of the Library is one of a type and calibre that proved themselves very efficient in the recent war. Throwing a projectile weighing around ninety-five pounds at a maximum muzzle velocity of twenty-three hundred and eighty feet per second it attains a maximum range of about seventeen thousand yards. It was the mainstay of the American and French armies in medium field rifles, and improvements in gun and projectile were being rapidly made when the armistices was signed...
Between the ages of seventeen and twenty-five, men have a more progressive and idealistic attitude than at any other period of life. Nothing seems too big or too difficult to accomplish; there is a breaking away from the traditional ways of thinking; a consciousness of one's own power...