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...special 600-yard run for the Pfaff Trophy should be one of the features of the meet. Caldwell and Halpin of the B. A. A. are leading contenders along with Higgins of Holy Cross. The University's entries in this race are Captain Bingham '16, A. Biddle '16, and H. W. Minot '17. Last year Minot won the 600 in the B. A. A. meet from the 10- yard mark...
...Along with the annual migration of Seniors to the Yard has come the custom of holding interdormitory smokers in the first floor rooms. This is an excellent tradition. By the time of its fourth year a class is so broken up into groups that an all-class smoker is hardly feasible. But geographical proximity and the associations of the Yard make open-house entertainments between dormitories both practicable and profitable. The aging undergraduate may cement at these functions acquaintances which now are of a merely speaking character, and may treasure them in his graduate life or find them sources...
...that in this country we have permitted each field of industry, each line of education and the National Government to pursue alone its course of research. The results obtained have been quite independent of each other. In other countries, Mr. McCormick pointed out, these great factors have worked together along co-ordinate lines to produce economic advantages to business, and educational and social benefits of the greatest value to the people as a whole...
...twelve heads of large industrial or manufacturing plants, each representing a different industry. Consideration would be given to the possibility of each educational institution handling specific problems for the industries, making experiments for them if necessary or desirable, and endeavoring to organize a course of study, training their graduates along particular lines that would be of direct benefit to the industries. The understanding would be, in this case, that these manufacturers would be willing eventually to take the most desirable of these students into their plants for the working out of the future scientific development and the problems of manufacturing...
...growth on it s physical side has been paralleled with an equal increase in the university's intellectual resources. Ten years ago the faculty number 46 professors, 11 assistant professors, 4 lecturers, 35 instructors, and 5 assistants, a total of 101. At that time the academic budget for salaries along amounted to $195,135. For the academic year 1914-15, the faculty numbered 72 professors, 10 assistant professor, 39 preceptors, 48 instructors, and 22 assistants a total of 195. The budget for this teaching staff now amounts to $401,310. The present teaching staff has therefore grown 93 per cent...