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...Resolved: That this house favors the immediate adoption of the Child Labor Amendment" is the question to be discussed when two University debating teams oppose Williams and Wesleyan on January 17 in the second series of debates in the Eastern Intercollegiate League. The affirmative team will go to Williams while the negative team opposes Wesleyan here...
This is the first time in the history of University debating that Harvard has opposed either Williams or Wesleyan in an intercollegiate debate. These are the last debates on the University schedule before the team enters the annual triangular contest with Yale and Princeton which is to be held shortly after the mid-year examinations...
...equipment has to be taken at great cost which may be entirely in vain if the day is cloudy. The next four total eclipses, for example, will take place in Sumatra, in Scandinavia, in Malacca, in Patagonia. But in this case, the observatories of Toronto, Cornell, Vassar, Yale and Wesleyan Universities will be in the path of the total eclipse while several others, such as the Yerkes and the Harvard observatories, will be in the region of partial but not of complete eclipse...
...other words, undergraduate Knox wanted Dr. Meiklejohn for her President when her present head, Dr. James L. McConaughy, departs after Jan. 1 to become President of Wesleyan University. It seemed doubtful, however, that Dr. Meiklejohn would be more than flattered and gratified by this informal invitation. Aroused to action by the losing fight he fought in 1923 when, as President of Amherst, he sought to put in effect there his liberal principles of education (TIME, June 25, 1923 et seq.), Dr. Meiklejohn has been plan- ning an "independent" university of his own (TIME, Sept...
...Middletown, Conn., the unrest appeared turbulent in the report of an intercollegiate conference held last month at Wesleyan University. This report, issued last week, coolly estimated that from 40 to 60% of the college students of the day are morons. The word "dumbbell"² was also used. Over this estimate, Prof. Charles Gray Shaw, of New York University, mused skeptically: "As a matter of fact," said he, "the students have more avidity for knowledge than their teachers can boast. . . . If they do not learn, it is because they are not taught. The conversation of students is often...