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American universities have all too frequently been likened to grist-mills, grinding out a mediocre product of intelligentia. Certainly the ideal university is not merely a large-scale vendor of knowledge, and it is perhaps with apprehension of this tendency in American education that President Butler of Columbia has taken the occasion of the inaugural exercises at Washington University to define the mission of the modern University. As important as the task of advancing learning, he believes, is that of offering a "reconciliation of the conflicting movements of nationalism and internationalism...
Brengh's Golden Horse in a spectacular posing novelty; Frank Jerome, the variety vendor; Ernest Evans and Girls in a poorly performed sketch, "Wedding Bells"; Dickinson and Deagon, late comedy features of "Hello, Alexander", and the New York Winter Garden; the Shubert News with a poor Mutt and Jeff comedy; Jerome Boganny and comedians in a pleasing and amusing act, the "Bill Posters"; Cecil Cunningham, comedienne; and the usual acrobatic number, the Pedersen Brothers, featuring the famous Pedersen trick made up the remainder of the program...
...gang of workers, the youngest apprentice had just quit work. "Public opinion" elected the next youngest employee to succed him in getting noonday milk for several workers. The young man in question performed the service with smiles and was obliged to "keep the change" sometimes as compensation. This milk vendor (or shall we say 100 percent worker?) was a Harvard student, but neither he nor his fellow workers remembered that at the time. CHAS. W. LYTLE. Director of Industrial Cooperation...
...announced at the mass meeting last evening, some enterprising vendor has estimated our enthusiasm over the Princeton game in terms of dollars and cents and has introduced into our midst a devilish device for producing a diabolical din. When used in sufficient number these instruments of noise, known as "clappers", are capable of producing enough sound to drown out the best organized cheering or the most effective singing. They are the type of noise-producer that a great crowd going to a professional baseball game desires to employ to "rattle" the opposing pitcher and to give the favorite team...
...University a chance to name its choice for chief executive. This straw vote was a complete success. Oftentimes when such ballots are held, only a minority of the student body goes to the polls, or many regard it as a rare opportunity to cast a vote for an accommodating vendor of food stuffs. As a result of such attitudes of indifference or jocularity, a straw vote may signify nothing as to the real political sentiments of the University. However, the vote last spring was not regarded in any such manner; the polls were well attended and a representative opinion resulted...