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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...purpose of the meeting will be to discuss various aspects of education in general and in particular to arrive at a solution of some of the problems which confront the urban universities alone. A number of men, prominent in education, and in the field of politics will be present at the meeting to speak on those subjects with which they are most closely connected...
...moving spirit of the University's hockey team for many years past. "A change from the tactics that have been used in the Arena is necessary, because of the comparatively small size of the new Ice Pavilion," said Clafin. "Careful thought must be devoted to the problems that confront hockey here this year, but with steady work we should meet with no unusual difficulties...
...strongly to the point. Lieut, Sir Arthur Brown of the Royal Air Force, responsible for this piece of good counsel, must have noticed the pitifully small scale of our flying service, compared with that of England. Perhaps our slow progress at present deserves excuse, because other far reaching problems confront the Government in the form of labor questions. But in the near future we are likely to see the formation by Congress of a special Department of Aeronautics. A bill to that effect is before the Senate now. The new department will initiate the first upward push of our tardy...
...even of self-supporting, students. As a result, sons of the moderately well-to-do, and even of the rich, receive what, in effect, is a gratuity. That is one of the many anomalies of democratic institutions. Mr. Barnes suggests that in making their canvass the "drive" teams confront every manifestly solvent graduate with a demand for unpaid arrears of tuition, and then proceed to the more abstract obligations of college loyalty, pupilliary gratitude, and enlightened self-interest...
...Campos 3L., H. D. White '21 and Professor Norton A. Kent of the Committee on Friendly Relations with Foreign Students, spoke. Campos explained the purpose of the Cosmopolitan Club. White gave a short address on the relation of the Cosmopolitan Club to the problems which confront the students, particularly the foreign students, of the Harvard of today...