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...with his neighbors. Since the dividing lines between subjects of study, like those between nations, are usually quite arbitrary and accidental, this is not hard to do". In so far as the impartial college president will permit it, so the periodical infers, our instructors are engaged in an unceasing border warfare which results in a balance of power as proclaimed in the announcement of courses. "To multiply subjects is to multiply rivalries. But a shrewd Bismarck of a professor who has a nice expansive subject such as sociology, history, or philosophy can soon be trespassing on every field...
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...given to this country the greatest weapon of influence in Mexico that it has yet had in its possession. By inculcating in these students American ideals and methods of though, these various colleges can exert a very wholesome, though somewhat long-distance control of affairs south of the border. It will take time for the effect to become evident, but if the embryo statesmen are given the proper attention and treatment, a gringo tinge will surely appear in the actions of the Mexican government before many years have passed...
...other interior field is the so-called Barco concession of about 1,500,000 acres near the Venezuelan border adjoining the prolific Maracaibo wells. This property, together with the oil rights on about two million acres nearby, is being exploited by the Carib Syndicate of New York, in cooperation with the subsidiary of the Henry L. Doherty interests of Pittsburg. Transportation problems have somewhat embarrassed these operations since the field is accessible only from the east by way of the Catatumbo River and Lake Maracalbo; but it is now proposed to lay a two hundred mile pipe line...
...track will be situated at the farther end of the tennis courts; one end will be just inside the Soldiers Field gate facing the Newell boathouse; while one side will border the present Freshman football field. The track will be of the same dimensions as the one in the Stadium, measuring 440 yards and with a 220-yard straight away. Inside the oval will be another football field which will probably be given over to future Freshman teams. Surveying of the track will start immediately, and it is expected that by continuing the work during the summer the University track...