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...accompany the Club on its trip. This competition is open to all men in the University, and aims to pick out the best player on the violin, 'cello, or piano or the duo, trio or quartet of instrumentalists. Any number of men up to four will be taken along, depending on the number forming the winning selection...
...Abbott thinks that the schoolboy should early specialize along one line of education and not acquire a mere smattering of many subjects. He also emphatically recommends the placing of athletics on an absolutely equal basis with scholarship. Admitting that he is a "radical in education," he says the function of a school is to form character, and the highest aim of every preparatory school is to turn out a man who can stand four-square against every wind that blows. Therefore he regards the attainment of scholarship as only one great means of developing character...
...MacMillan was assistant to Peary in his successful trip to the North Pole. For three years afterwards he cruised along the Labrador Coast, and in 1913 he commanded the Crocker Land Expedition, from which he returned in 1917. In 1920-21 the explorer will have charge of the Bowdoin-Baflln Land expedition...
...contribution of the conference is that it has brought to light the woeful inadequacy of existing knowledge to cope with the problems of industrial unrest. The men who have drawn up the present scheme have asked for criticism and suggestion from the country. They have also undertaken special research along special lines, and will meet later in the month to revise their plan. This part of their labors is admirable. The truth is, however, that the people of the United States have not yet the power or the energy to face industrial problems in a scientific spirit. That...
...joining the University or Freshman track squads will report to Coach Eddie Farrell at the Locker Building. Practice for the runners on the board track erected on Soldiers Field and for the field event men in the Cage commences immediately. The work will be carried along by a mass meeting in the Union on Wednesday evening at 7 o'clock. At this meeting every man interested in track, whether in running, field events or indoor events, must be present. Plans for the season and the rapidly approaching indoor meets will be discussed, and particular stress laid on the complete revival...