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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...been offered and has unofficalily accepted the position of crew coach at Yale to succeed Professor M. A. Abbott according to the vote of the Board of Athletic Control at its last meeting. In accepting this offer, Nickalls resumes the position of head coach which he held with marked success from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nickalls Again Yale Crew Mentor | 12/20/1919 | See Source »

...success of the psychological entrance examinations at Columbia and elsewhere in the country where they have been adopted, is beyond question according to the unqualified statement of Dr. A. L. Jones, Director of Admissions at Columbia. At Columbia the examinations have been established as a permanent feature and this recognition of their value will doubtless have a great effect all over the country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLUMBIA FINDS "PSYCH" EXAMS, PROOF OF FITNESS | 12/18/1919 | See Source »

...high school diploma gives them eighty-seven times as much chance--while a college education makes them eight hundred times as likely to succeed. But the fact that such incidents as the above do still happen should be sufficient to make us more guarded against assuming any over-confidence. Success is by no means guaranteed by education. What has been said before still applies today, that education is nothing more nor less than an effective tool, the successful application of which depends on hard and intelligent work. Our training must be regarded as a privilege not to be abused...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SUPERIORITY. | 12/12/1919 | See Source »

After the curtain-raiser, the audience felt that the Dramatic Club's new policy of producing foreign plays was going to be a success; it was relieved to find that the Club was able to live up to its pre-war standards. But it was not pre pared for what followed. Some of the spectators remembered that, before the war, plays by Holberg and similar authors were given frequently in Germany with great success. And they wondered what the H. D. C. would do with "Erasmus Montanus". How would it maintain the spirit of the 18th century and yet bring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRAMATIC CLUB'S SUCCESS DESERVES COMMENDATION | 12/11/1919 | See Source »

...triumph. The scenery made no pretense at realism; it was frankly imaginative and showed real skill and knowledge of stage values. The costumes were in harmony with the scenery and both admirably suited the character of the play. It is not too much to say that the success of "Erasmus Montanus" was in considerable measure due to the accurate conception of scenery and costumes. Again, it is not over enthusiastic to say that seldom, if ever, has there been such uniformly good acting in a Dramatic Club performance. There was scarcely a jarring note in all the five acts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRAMATIC CLUB'S SUCCESS DESERVES COMMENDATION | 12/11/1919 | See Source »

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