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Universities are created to educate. But few universities can afford to be too particular about their standards of education until they have expanded to profitable size. For this purpose they must establish a reputation and popularity among young people; no better means exists than to have successful, famed football teams for a number of years. Last week University of Notre Dame (founded 1842) which has had pre-eminent football teams for a decade, announced a new standard of scholarship: to enter, high-school students must have stood in the first scholastic two-thirds of their classes; to be graduated, Notre...
...present chapel may at present afford sufficient size, but it is neither beautiful nor well-designed for the greatest usefulness, and is entirely unsuited as an expression of the truly warm glowing religion that could exist here, attracting students to it rather than sending them elsewhere. J. DeWolf Perry...
...proposed restriction went into effect. There is also the question of those who transfer from high school to preparatory school. A year is inevitably lost in the process, making the preparation at least five years in length. To bar them from college would work hardships on those who cannot afford four years at preparatory school, and yet wish to amplify their high school training...
Toledo to the Sea. Thirty-eight miles of new track between Cochran's Mill and Connellsville, Pa., last week were opened for traffic. Built at a cost of $16.000,000 by Pittsburgh & West Virginia Railway (Taplin-managed, Pennroad-controlled), it joins the P. & W. V. with Western Maryland, affords another direct route from Toledo and the Great Lakes to Baltimore and the Atlantic seaboard, may afford a 24-hour freight saving. If the proposed Eastern rail consolidation plan goes through, control of the P. & W. V. will be held jointly by the four eastern systems, hence the new link will...
...column on March 3, you set forth the reasons for the ruling just issued concerning students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences living in Perkins and Conant Halls. Although it must be admitted that the general purpose of the ruling--that is, to give those who cannot afford high rents an opportunity to live in inexpensive rooms, and to eliminate those perennial inhabitants who, by virtue of full time teaching appointments could (so they say) afford to live elsewhere,--is just and reasonable, the method of carrying the ideal into effect involves a fallacy and contradiction which should...