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...lectures which Professor William Howard Taft, of the Yale Law School, is to give in Cambridge, will be delivered tomorrow, Thursday, and Friday, at the Law School. Professor Taft will lecture on "The Presidency: Its Powers and Duties from a Constitutional and Legal Standpoint." The treatment of the subject will be from a technical rather than a popular viewpoint, and so, especially since the attendance from the Law School will be large, it will be impossible to open the lectures to the University at large...
...plunges. The generalship of the quarter backs was obviously mediocre, and the tackling, of the ends in particular, and of the whole team in general, was way below standard. Glick and Law did by far the best work in a game which was decidly unsatisfactory, viewed from Princeton's standpoint...
...victory was not encouraging from the University's standpoint. The team had less fight and less punch than a week ago; the line gave way when it should have held, and was unable to make holes for the backs at critical moments. The team was pushed to the limit during the entire contest, and staved off a tie score only a few minutes before the end of the last quarter...
...reputation and fame throughout the world. When they assemble and hear, as they will this year, of remarkable expansion of the University in material and in other ways, a great deal of good is bound to result. This meeting should eclipse all that have gone before from the standpoint of attendance and influence for the advancement of the University...
First we cannot assimilate him. Assimilation is based on likeness of standpoint and knowledge of a language. Since the 35.6 per cent of the immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe is illiterate, illiteracy is the reason for poor assimilation...