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...competition for the William H. Baldwin Prize for 1916 closes March 15. The subject chosen this year is "Efficient Billboard Regulation" and the competition is open to any undergraduate of good standing in any college. Theses should not be over ten thousand words in length, should be typewritten in duplicate, and both copies sent to Chuion R. Woodruff, Secretary of the National Municipal League, North American Building, Philadelphia, Pa., signed by a pseulonym. Accompanying this should be sent a sealed envelope containing the pseudonym, real name, age, class, college, and residence of the competitor...
...Clear-tongued from out the flame, With the light of a thousand ages...
...minor (perhaps it may soon be major) sport was welcomed into the University last night by the thousand students who packed the Living Room of the Union. The promotion of any addition to our already wide field of extra-curriculum activities requires both perseverance and a careful sizing up of opportunities. And to have done this in so popular a way as to attract more spectators, than have witnessed any other intercollegiate contest proves both the ability of the managers and the existence of a good opening for this new sport...
...were for the most part notably absent from its Faculty. Moreover, no attention whatever was paid to the rooming and boarding problems of the students. The result has been that while such summer schools as those of Columbia and the University of California have enrolments of more than five thousand, the University Summer School has numbered its members in hundreds...
...faire policy has been changed. Last year a number of new courses, in history and international law, especially,--were given by leading members of their departments. A new feature of practical importance was the opening of the Freshman dormitories to summer students. The enrolment last summer was over a thousand...