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...easy task to defeat Princeton and often we have failed, but our success this year has almost exceeded all expectations. There is cause for exultation in this alone. Yet the outcome of Saturday's games is gratifying not only from a competitive point of view, but also from the standpoint of its relation to this spring's formal system of sport...
Neither of these two large classes realizes that it has taken the wrong standpoint. The true educational value of the college lies in the fact that it can properly offer the happy combination of class room and outside activities. But although the college may offer this latter, it is practically powerless to see that the opportunities it offers are accepted...
...here at the University,--and will have it their special task to solve the problems of labor in the Government's industries. Efficient hiring and "firing" will be their immediate duty, but to do this well they will have to obtain an exhaustive knowledge of labor conditions from every standpoint. They will see the necessity of organization, and will be in the best position to develop the methods of attaining it. The labor problem has become too big and too important to be handled as it has been heretofore, and the Government has wisely taken the first step towards giving...
Next Sunday morning the University religious exercises will once more be held in Appleton Chapel. The removal to the Faculty Room of University Hall was a wise action from the standpoint of saving coal, but it did not prove successful as far as attendance is concerned. This apathy of undergraduates may have resulted from force of habit-our young men could never find their way to University Hall-or from a conviction that the Faculty Room did not have the fitting appointments. An average of forty or fifty a day is indicative, if discouraging...
...seem anachronistic. Yet in spite of its lack of the artistic, in spite of its being the home of the Bursar, Dane Hall had a certain charm. It could always glance over at Matthews or peer round the corner at Weld and put those two to shame from the standpoint of personal attraction. Also it was old, at least old for the United States, and it had become venerable. In its age, with wrinkles stealing on, it had settled down comfortably and seemed to announce to landscape gardeners and architects that it intended staying there for some time...