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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Professor Johnston once remarked in a history course that ours was the only country since the Roman Empire in which the possession of intellect was considered a reproach. He alluded, of course, to the sneer which always accompanies the word "highbrow". It is a condition which should cause us serious reflection. One of the faults of a democracy lies apparently in the fact that while education is more widely diffused its quality is somewhat diluted. High scholarship is not honored in America as it is abroad. Other countries recognize the attainments of their learned citizens by some particular distinction: England...
...conversational attempt of educated Americans. "Bring together a group of college men, graduates of the same institution, and what do they talk about?" he inquires. "The same things as the tired business men of theatrical disrepute, sport or women, business or politics in the littlest sense of the word...
...gesture a powerful and independent spirit, apt more to excite awe than to invite friendly or filial attachment. But whatever the qualities that go to the making of a college "celebrity" they are sure to be of the kind that compel affection. Such a man teaches not alone by word of mouth. He instructs as much by his example of manhood, by the standard of his tastes. He is something more than an instructor; he is an influence...
...Word has just been received that Howard Burchard Lines, LL.B., '15, of Paris, a driver in the American Ambulance Field Service, died of acute pneumonia in the Argonne district. He contracted the disease during service at the front. His father, Dr. E. S. Lines, lives in Paris...
...England, Harvard, Yale, Brown, Dartmouth, Amherst, Williams, Tufts, Bowdoin and the others. Even Smith, Mt. Holyoke, Wellesley and the other girls' colleges are not specifically exempted from the charge, for the people of the West send their girls to these institutions, which are colleges in every sense of the word. How much personal investigation by Mr. Sunday preceded this wholesale denunciation we are, of course, unable to say. He did not attempt to go into details, nor did he state where or how he got the information on which his sensational charges were based. He denounced the New England colleges...