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...Blettner prepared at the Nicholas Senn High School, Chicago. The appointments are made after an eight weeks' competition and are subject to the approval of the Athletic Committee. HARVARD MILTON Slocum, Cozzcns r.f. l.g. Hubbard, Vorn Baldwin (capt.,), Pusey l.f. r.g. Hitch Green, McCurdy, Lane c. c. Filoom, Upton Barbee, Oothout r.g. l.g. Vaughan, Ticknor Oothout, Meisenbach, Fordyce l.g. r.f. Valentine (capt.), Filoom...
...invited Upton Sinclair, noted Radical, to speak in Boston on February 17. Mr. Sinclair has added to his fame by the publications of the "Goose Step" which contains a seathing criticism of Harvard and "The Goslings" which accomplishes the same purpose in regard to High Schools. He will speak here on the subject matter contained in these two books in order to aid the college and high school students in the League to carry on their propaganda...
...aspect of this system of education must be very unpalatable to Mr. Upton Sinclair. The Russian faculties and students are carefully kept in the goose-step, and any who would molt into swans or ducks are ungently and forcefully removed from their positions. The subtle manipulation of financial pressure which Mr. Sinclair finds everywhere in America, is replaced by the action of bayonets. The new generation in Russia may learn all the physics, engineering, and mathematics that it can these are not dangerous. But political economy, government, history, are all painstakingly censored, even more than natural history in Nebraska...
...wonder what Mr. Upton Sinclair who so scathingly attacks American colleges and universities on the charge that they are controlled by ultra-conservative financiers who want only "accepted", doctrines taught and who smack not at all of the liberalism and broad-mindedness needed by leaders of our education,--we wonder what Mr. Upton Sinclair will do when he hears that Mr. Howard Eliott '81 has been chosen as the new president of the Board of Overseers at Harvard? No doubt he will clap his hands and shout from the house-tops: "I told you it was so! Here...
...Eliott in his new position. In spite of the cautious and reactionary attitude toward education of his "big business" world, the CRIMSON hopes that Mr. Eliott will always be found on the side of liberalism when troublesome educational problems are to be decided. May he prove Mr. Upton Sinclair wrong...