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...announcement that Yale College, although not Sheffield, has ratified a proposal of the Student Council to limit the number of offices which an individual may hold will arouse wide-spread interest. Such a policy has long been in vogue in some preparatory schools and western universities. The exponents of the system defend it on the ground that it tends to efficiency in the administration of undergraduate activities in that it restrains a man from undertaking more than he can successfully accomplish. The benefits of experience in management are more equally distributed, and studies are said to receive more attention...
...some time ago, to witness a performance of the 47 Workshop, and was much impressed by the very definite attempt at theater lighting therein. I consider that Professor Baker has done some of the most valuable work in connection with the theatrical workshop movement, and his influence is remarkably wide-spread...
...intercollegiate sport in a capacity more or less critical, gratuitously to offer opinions outside his own medium of publicity concerning the conduct of athletic affairs at one institution or another, yet the question of resident coaches as opposed to the instructor engaged merely for the season has assumed a wide-spread importance which may be regarded as justifying the CRIMSON--or whatever university daily, for that matter,--in opening wide doors and windows for the admission of whatever light may come from any source or quarter...
...reputation of Professor Pickering as one of the world's leading astronomers is wide-spread. Under his direction the Observatory greatly widened its scope, until it had built up a system of correspondence with observatories and private astronomers all over the world through which discoveries and observations were compared and verified. He established the Observatory's auxiliary station at Arequipa, Peru, and devised many new methods of astronomical photography...
Arthur C. Wise will address the whole committee and teams in the CRIMSON Building today at 5 o'clock on the importance of the loan, the necessity of wide-spread cooperation, and the best methods for launching a successful campaign...