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...university with its elaborate machinery of instruction would then come into play to supplement college instruction. The university professors would teach; and the students of each college, under the supervision and by the advice of the master of the college, would select their courses. The system of general university electives would be combined with prescribed home courses in each individual college. The master would give tone and character to his college, and to each individual student in it. The final degree, bearing the name and seal of Harvard, would be conferred as the result of examinations in common...
Smart U. S. Citizens hummed thus, last week, as they perused a private letter or two containing delicious details of the recent London marriage of England's cherubic Lord High Chancellor, Sir Douglas McGarel Hogg, Baron Hailsham. For one thing this extremely select wedding was attended by only 60 guests, the press and the public being barred. For another it took place in King Henry VII's Chapel, in Westminster Abbey, the most gloriously Gothic and splendid shrine in England. Moreover the license was the first to be issued by the new Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of All England...
...years ago Harvard defeated the University of Pittsburgh, supporting the proposition: "Education is the Curse of the Age". In view of the fact that it is necessary to choose the team for the coming debate immediately, the Debating Council will select the men for the coming forensic duel today at the scheduled meeting, instead of holding the customary try-outs. The debaters will be chosen from among the more experienced members of the Debating Council. The midyear examinations prevented the Council from holding the regular try-outs. The Council regrets the necessity for eliminating the try-outs in selecting...
Assuming that the businessman control idea actually goes into operation, whom might Chicagoans select as leader of the business group? Young as Chicago is, many of its great pioneer families have already passed into their third generations. Among the Swifts, the Armours, the McCormicks. the Potter Palmers, perhaps the most available candidate is Harold Higgins Swift (president of the board of the University of Chicago, director of Chicago's United Charities). Potent, indeed, are Robert Rutherford McCormick and Joseph Medill Patterson, heads of the Chicago Tribune. But Mr. McCormick would hardly leave the Tribune to act in an advisory capacity...
...Memorial Hall and the other in the Union. Let the general run of "representative" Juniors, attend the function in the festive atmosphere of Memorial Hall. Let those whom one likes to look upon as fellow-mortals gather together in the exclusive Union after due selection by a select committee of those "whose names are withheld by request...