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...club elections for this year, held last week, W. N. Bump '28 was elected president, F. L. Ames '28 viceer, Crocker Snow 1L. secretary and A. president, M. N. Fairbanks '28 treasurer, Crocker Snow 1L. secretary, and A. U. Pabst 1L., R. W. Ayer '28, and F. P. Sproul '28 became directors. There are ten men on the flight committee, to be eligible for which one must have flown ten hours alone. There are 23 men in the club...
...James Pates '28, Charles Hicks '27, Frank Wattendorl '26, E. C. Darling '29; in the business department, R. N. Bennett '28, H. C. Relf '28, Mark Winkler '28; in the art department, Fairfield Porter '28, E. H. Atkinson '29, G. K. Bishop '27; in the electrical department, F. P. Sproul '28; in the costumes department, R. B. Gowing '29; in the publicity department, Alan Bernstein '27, V. O. Jones...
...Minister of the Free State. Afterwards Magistrate Fitzgerald fined one Michael McFadden $13.50, and gave one Daniel O'Rourke 3G days for saying he did not like the U. S. and wanted to go back to Ireland. But the delegates went on to a reception at former Governor Sproul's and then entrained once more, getting to Washington late in the evening...
From the window of his Faculty Club H. C. Sproul writes for the October "Scribner's" a whimsical defense of the mind which meanders through college without marking time to the beat of contemporary life. And he contents himself with that defense rather than with an attack upon the deum machinae of the university. In his opinion this type of spirit is ordained by its very being to wander through life, entering no fixed abode, enjoying perhaps the feel of a book, the form of a thought, the swing of a measure. A foe of the heaviness in living...
...Sproul, who is such a mind himself, is too reticent about striking a sufficiently salient blow for his cause. There is need for more dreaming in the American university. The progress of body, of mind is stressed too much,--the advance of fancy too little. When the wise men of his time asked Pythagoras his chief delights, he named children and stars. Most university dwellers forget the former while they hitch modernized wagons to the latter. They cannot trifle with dreams...