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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Yale has already made her application for a unit at New Haven, and Cornell and Pennsylvania have announced their intention of so doing. Even if the time is not yet ripe for any action on our part, has not the moment arrived for at least a word to assure us that the University is actively engaged in considering how Harvard can best fulfill the plans which the War Department has proposed and comply with the regulations which the military authorities have deemed necessary to its most efficient operation? B. A. G. FULLER...
...work of intelligent beings, his work has keenly stimulated the study of that planet, and has greatly advanced scientific knowledge of it. Even now the question of the nature and cause of these markings, may be regarded as in abeyance. Lowell had not proved his case. Scientists tell us that the Schiaperelli and Lowell "canals" on Mars exist in these astronomer's own psychology, or rather in their own eyes. Yet the markings which Mr. Lowell had noted at Flagstaff, whether they are continuous, as he assumes, or in reality discontinuous, as other astronomers assert, certainly exist, and Mr. Lowell...
...books tell us of 20,00 students at mediaeval Paris, Oxford, Padua. Possibly the registration system wasn't as accurate as Columbia's. Last year she had 19,094 students, or more than 13,000, if the summer sessioners be counted out. The teaching staff has 959 members. The original faculty, the whole corps of instructors, in the good old Colony times and beginnings of King's College, was its first President, Dr. Samuel Johnson, and his undergraduates were eight. In our own time Columbia has grown gigantically. She is become a great national and cosmopolitan university...
Recently the pendulum has been swinging the other way, for specialists tell us we should sleep as long as we can. Propagandists urge that the eight-hour law be applied to sleep as well as to labor, but still the answer to these rival claims remains unanswered...
When we re-read books which interested us intensely a long time ago, we learn the origin of many of our "peculiar and original" ideas and prejudices. We, furthermore, realize the strong influence an absorbing book has on character and how dangerous it would be to ourselves, to the community and to the world at large, if we read the biographies of library vandals, ticket scalpers and horse thieves. --The Pennsylanian...