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...entire student body. And why shouldn't universities make the attempt to place a premium upon brains in this way? Students who maintain high rank give an institution very little trouble. It is the dunce and the shirker who make it necessary for colleges to maintain an array of deans and other disciplinary officials. There is something to be said, therefore, for the doctrine that the better a student's rank in his studies the less he ought to be charged for his instruction. At any rate the Yale differential is a step in that direction. --Boston Herald...
...Yard man-with-a-hoe should fall while pursuing a Yard squirrel, would the University be obliged to pay his doctor's-bills? If one is to judge by cases cited in a recent report of the Labor Board, the answer of both these questions is; Yes. The array of problems that have recently come up for its consideration are a reductio ad absurdum of the compensation law. Among the petitioners for remuneration is a prisoner in the Sing-Sing death chamber. Another man won damages against his employer because, while engaged in his work, he was mistaken...
...anyone doubts that Harvard students have a flair for hats, let him view the array now spread out in the Crimson office as mementos of a football victory over Yale. When the excitement had died away after the game, the Crimson, alert to the interest of its readers, organized a hat exchange. Many forlorn hats which had become separated from their fathers were thus restored to their homes. Yet now two weeks after the game the orphan hats number nearly thirty. And those who are constantly in and out of Harvard square have no difficulty in recognizing them as Harvard...
...Armaments Conference has brought to Washington a notable assemblage of statesmen. In their wake, like a flock of gulls behind an ocean steamer, follows a motley array of attaches, unofficial representatives and newspaper correspondents. From this last group most of our impressions of the Conference must come, and on them to a great extent depends its favorable reception by the people of the countries involved. It it especially desirable, then, that their reports should be free from personal prejudice...
...also a fact that the games this fall have been harder than those of the average early-season schedule of any college in the country, A doubleheader as an opener, Holy Cross the next week, then Indiana, Georgia, Penn State, and Centre in succession--this is a formidable array and one which would tax the resources of any eleven in college ranks today...