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...great riot several years ago and the impossible situation which it created, and they clearly do not realize what harm may result from a super-abundance of energy carelessly applied. So far the record of 1927 has been extremely good all in all, but the authorities cannot afford a recurrence of previous situations, and any tendency towards another riot will be sternly suppressed and the offenders treated with the utmost severity. 1927 could establish no more worthy tradition than that of avoiding all appearance of riots and of making large scale disturbances in the Oval henceforth entirely out of order...
...telegrams made one thing clear- Mr. McLean wished to avoid being questioned in detail about his "loan" to Mr. Fall. There was also a curious phrase in one of the telegrams suggesting that the installation of the private wire to Palm Beach would afford "easy access to the White House." There was evidence that a telegraph operator at the White House had been employed after hours to operate the Washington end of the McLean wire...
...brought to light a widespread complaint on the part of British "university men" against the Americanization of Canada's colleges. They point, for example, to the Greek letter fraternities, which in the last 20 years have enjoyed a mushroom growth at Toronto, McGill, etc. Oxford and Cambridge afford no precedents for such silly, bourgeois performances, say the university men. In fact, the whole of Canadian university life, they say, is unpleasantly infected with the American extra-curriculum...
...upon the overworked politician. William G. McAdoo, candidate, declared last week: "I am being requested . . . to make extensive speaking tours . . . Such a campaign I cannot make. In the first place, it is physically destructive to travel such distances making speeches all the way. In the second place, I cannot afford it, for my campaign is not supported by moneyed interests and I must count the pennies...
...function of a college has been defined as the production of college trained minds, whereas the function of a university is to afford those college-trained minds the opportunity of acquiring a more specific store of actual knowledge. And indeed this analysis seems a fair description of the present system. What Dean West recommends, however, is the relegation of this function of training minds to the preparatory schools. The college would there-upon become less of a disciplinary institution, and more a place of acquiring real education. The helpless feeling which is common to many Freshman during the first months...