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...university life is a better preparation for active life.- (a) The student's enthusiasm for his work is kept more fully alive by the elective system: Educational Review, VII, 313; VIII, 64.- (1) It allows him to pursue the branches in which he is interested.- (2) He can avoid branches disagreeable to him.- (3) The presence of graduate workers acts as a constant incentive to him.- (4) He is stimulated by more sympathetic intercourse with his instructors.- (b) It leads to "Emancipation of Thought"; Educational Review, IV, 366; VII, 313 fg.; Graduates' Magazine II, 468.- (1) It tends to break...
...certainly in the end produce war than to invite European aggressions on American states by abject surrender of our principles. By a combination of indifference on the part of most of our people, a spirit of eager servility toward England in another smaller portion, and a base desire to avoid the slightest financial loss even at the cost of the loss of national honor by yet another portion, we may be led into a course of action which will for the moment avoid trouble by the simple process of tame submission to wrong. If this is done it will surely...
There will be four entries to each event, except the quarter mile run, which will have but three to avoid the necessity of trial heats...
Lockers may now be obtained at the Gymnasium, and in order to avoid confusion in procuring them, it may be well to publish the arrangements...
...hoped that this arrangement will avoid the inconvenience caused by personal application and in addition, enable those who rent lockers to be located in desirable sections...