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...population of Australia is under six million, the greater proportion being resident in or about the six capital cities. There are six universities, one in each of these cities. The largest is the University of Sydney, the two smallest are the Universities of West Australia and Tasmania. Australians lead an open air life: games are possible the year round. The most popular sports are cricket, tennis and football. In the two former Australia has for many years disputed the world's supremacy...
Freshmen inevitably hear of "Copey" within their first week .at Harvard, if not long before, but they may pass him many times in the street before knowing him by sight. There is nothing to notice about a little fellow of 66, as small, indeed, as the smallest freshman, in traditional oldtime professorial garb-old brown overcoat, brown suit, felt hat far down over generous ears. But on a Monday evening, as soon as the reading begins, a newcomer understands what it is that has made "Copey" the William Lyon Phelps (Yale), the Henry van Dyke (Princeton), the John Erskine (Columbia...
...American, a believer in democracy, it is not a refreshing spectacle to find that a once sane nation has substituted violence for justice and has no longer the faintest vestige of a free press, and a government which imposes injury and poverty on the smallest official who speaks a breath of criticism against it. ... Conditions are not growing better. My total impression was one of impending disaster. The country cannot continue under such a state of nerves and under such a dictatorship indefinitely. Something must happen-assassinations, wars or another revolution. It is not only that the conditions menace Italy...
...largest individual dividend amounts to $87 and will be received by a University student. The sum indicates purchases totalling about $1000 since most of the buying was done on a charge account. The smallest dividend is $.20, although there are several others that run well below one dollar...
...applies fully to Oxford and Cambridge, fairly well to St. Andrews. very ill to the other versities. Even if it be argued that Oxford and Cambridge are the English University system, St. Andrews is very far from being the Scottish system. The English system is by far the smallest in numbers. (about one-tenth of the enrolment in Glasgow or Edinburgh) and, Apart from its seniority, has no special assets to offset its numerical weakness. St. Andrews, like Oxford and Cambridge, is if the system described by Principal Irvine is to be imitated here the task should be approached with...