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Furthermore, college graduates have a heavy responsibility thrust upon them in this matter of art. The general public looks to the college bred man to direct its taste in art. The wealthy turn to them to guide in the eredtion of public museums, galleries, or monuments. The call is urgent and practical. With this lofty purpose in view, the study of Fine Arts surely deserves serious and earnest application...
...desire a change of system: Educ. Rev. I, 1-7; Nation, XLIX, 425. - (a) The four years course keeps away from college many men - (1) Who are unable to meet the expense, - (2) Who are unwilling to give the time. - (b) Our national problems need the aid of college-bred...
...athletics in general is injured by the official credence given by a university of Harvard's prominence to the misrepresentations and unjust attacks of the opponents of football during the past season. The attitude of the Yale Faculty will undoubtedly continue to be one of non-interference - a policy bred of confidence in undergraduate sentiment to institute all necessary reforms in the game...
...could ascertain from 'Appleton's Cyclopaedia of Biography,' of the fifty-six 'signers' twenty-six were college graduates, while ten more received classical training, though they did not attend college. Of the twenty-six college-bred 'signers,' Harvard furnished eight - Samuel Adams, John Adams, John Hancock, William Ellery, Elbridge Gerry, R. T. Paine, William Hooper and William Williams; Yale four - Oliver Walcott, 1747; Phillip Livingston, 1737; Lewis Morris, 1746, and Lyman Hall, 1747; Princeton two - Richard Stockton and Benjamin Rush; William and Mary three - Thomas Jefferson, C. Braxton, and George Wythe; College of Philadelphia three - William Paca, Matthew Hopkinson...
...sixty-one men commissioned to attend the Constitutional Convention thirty-one were college-bred, and five of the remainder had what might be called a liberal education, though they did not attend college. Of these Harvard furnished six - Rufus King, Elbridge Gerry, Francis Dana, Caleb Strong, John Pickering, and Benjamin West; Yale four - Abr. Baldwin, Jared Ingersoll, W. S. Johnson, and Wm. Livingston; Princeton nine - James Madison, Gunning Bedford, Jonathan Dayton, Oliver Ellsworth, Luther Martin, Alexander Martin, Wm. Patterson, W. C. Houston, and W. R. Davie; William and Mary five - John Edmund Randolph, George Wythe, James McClurg...