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...Millet then called attention to the keynote of his lectures--the necessity for Christian and Mohammedan states along the Mediterranean. France is now working to bring this understanding about in her African dependencies...
After making a short sketch of the life along the coast of the Mediterranean between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, the period in which the Barbary pirates were most active, M. Millet described Algiers-its soil, climate, productions and inhabitants. France had a long and difficult struggle before it conquered this barbarous country, and after finally subduing it, was confronted with the puzzling problem of conciliating two widely different races, the conquered and the conquerors. In the beginning, many mistakes were made, but the general condition of the country is steadily improving and the natives show by their increase...
...Germany. Since becoming president of Berea College in 1893 he has made distinctive work of adapting educational methods to conditions in the Southern mountains. The college which was formerly an institution for the education of negroes as well as the "poor whites" living in the corners of eight states along the Alleghany and Blue Ridge Mountains, is endeavoring to do for the people of that region what the Tuskegee and Hampton Institutes are doing for the negroes in the South...
...partitions are built and the plumbing and heating systems are installed. In the building for the Physiology and Physiological Chemistry Departments, the concrete floors are all set, and the plumbing and ventilating pipes are being set up. The building for Anatomy and Histology is about equally far along in construction, and further work on the Administration building has been deferred until spring...
...Harvard football, that the coaching force has simply been swamped with men, and the results to the player and to discipline have been to say the least, unfortunate. We do not want to return to the days of two men coaching by themselves, nor does Harvard want to get along, as some universities do, with a limited coaching staff, but there must be order and system, and the coaching of an individual player, or an individual attainment, like tackling, or punting, must be through one man who is responsible for that result, and for whom the head coach is responsible...