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Some years ago a man, not altogether averse to prominence at the Lake Mohonk peace conferences, offered $100 to the student in any American college who would write the best essay on the peace cause. With a great flourish of trumpets, the donor himself making a magnificent speech, the $100 was finally awarded. Statistics showed that if the prize had been divided equally among the contestants each would have received 82 cents for his labors. Of course, the contest may have been an aid to forceful writing, but the chances are that the same results could have been accomplished through...
...month or more ago Mr. Truxton Beale, formerly minister to Persia, offered $10,000 in cash prizes to young Republicans who could furnish the best platform suggestions for the coming campaign. Naturally the opposition press, under the leadership of the New York World, ridiculed a party so bereft of principles that it had to call on the college boys of the country to supply the deficiency, and the ridicule undoubtedly offset any benefits which might have been derived from the contest...
Eight years ago Young was one of the University catchers and in 1913 was the mainstay of the first team. After leaving the University he bent his efforts to developing a team at Winthrop High School, and there he showed peculiar ability in forming a strong battery as well as an all-round team...
...completion of a plan begun several years ago, announcement was recently made at Princeton that a new School of Architecture will be opened. The school has been established as a branch of the Department of Art and Archaeology and is designed primarily to co-ordinate the studies of the men electing this course who look forward to architecture as a profession, to graduate them with the Bachelor of Arts degree in four years and to fit them for the professional degree in architecture in two more years...
...Crimson relay team will compete in the 13th annual games of the Millrose A. A. to be held at Madison Square Garden, New York City, on February 10. The University has been represented in these games several times before and five years ago made second place in the meet. During the war no Harvard runners were entered and this year the relay will be the only event in which the University will take part. The race is over a distance of one mile, each man running a quarter. The following men have been entered: J. T. Baldwin '21, R. Chute...