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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...makes itself felt, and in the present instance I hope and believe that it is going to make itself felt in favor of war." Is this the sort of "political doctrine" which Columbia is about to "investigate," or does it confine its investigations purely to anti-war speeches? A short while ago Count Tolstoi, the son of the world famous author, was prevented by President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia from delivering a speech in the precincts of that university which the censor at Moscow had seen fit to pass as harmless, even for Russia! Is that doctrine...
...short this committee aims to better present conditions and further track interests to the fullest possible extent and is ready for co-operation or intelligent criticism from undergraduate sources
...meeting of the University baseball squad was held in the Locker Building yesterday afternoon before practice at which Captain G. E. Abbot '17 and Coach Duffy addressed the players. Captain Abbot gave a short talk on the baseball spirit and urged the men to talk and think baseball as well as play it during the entire practice. Discussions of plays among the men is especially helpful, he declared. Coach Duffy then outlined his plans of the work as it will be carried on while the squad is forced to practice in the cage. One of the features of the practice...
Marion Wilson, captain of the 1917 football team, will be one of the best men in the hurdles, and Crawford and Erdman will be his running mates. Crawford has been a member of the team for three years, and Erdman is considered a sure point-winner in the short-distance hurdles. Crawford probably will compete in the high jump, and Hingham and Erskine in the pole vault. Kissam, Munsel and Madden compose the broad-jumping squad. Nourse, Gennert and Funk, all football players, will be able to take care of the hammer-throwing contests, and Sinclaire and Cleveland will...
...Princeton combined; almost as many as Wisconsin, Stanford, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Johns Hopkins, Chicago and California combined. Harvard and Yale together have graduated 24 more of these distinguished persons than Columbia, Cornell, Pennsylvania and Princeton combined. The supremacy of these institutions, and of Harvard in particular, is little short of astounding...