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...team there last fall if he had stayed in college, and he was president of Scroll and Keys when he left for France. That is not an infallible proof that he was all right, but it shows what his own class thought of him, and you can take my word for it anyway, that you don't meet a man of his ability and kindness in every day's journey you make. He once fell off a cliff,--perhaps I told you about it, and was very badly hurt,--and had to stay out of school for a year with...
Robert Matteson Johnston, A.M., Assistant Professor of Modern History at the University, has, according to word received from Washington, been commissioned a major in the National Army. It is understood that Professor Johnston is to be ordered to duty in the Capitol, where he will engage in work connected with compiling an exact historical account of the war. Whether or not he will remain at the College for the remainder of the academic year has not yet been announced...
...result of developments from the negotiations between the University and Princeton after the debate last Friday, it has definitely been decided to hold this year as usual the Freshman intercollegiate debate between the Freshmen and Yale and Princeton 1921. Unless word to the contrary is received from Yale within the next three days, the debate will be held on May 17, the Freshman negative team meeting the Yale 1921 speakers here, while the affirmative goes to Princeton. It is possible, however, that Yale may ask that the date of the debate be changed...
...differ. Let us examine the nature of the evil. What "kind of men have we among those who play an important part in public affairs? We have business men who find it necessary, in order to call forth the most efficient exercise of their capabilities in service,-note that word,-to their country, to work under the added stimulus of profits so abnormal as to be the cause of public indignation. Dean Gay admitted this failing when he recently advocated unrestricted profiteering. We have business men who persistently oppose schemes for national saving on a large scale,-such as discontinuance...
Secondly, we are educated for "efficiency," not service. The first would not be so undesirable as an end of education were it not for a materialistic connotation that has grown up with the word. On this basis, college courses offer the means only for intensive and specialized preparation for particular branches of service. Compulsory distribution seldom insures in the average student an intelligent conception of what part he will play in the work of the world or the relation of his labor to that of other people. In other words, the ordinary college graduate lacks that comprehensive view, that general...