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...arrive in Cambridge tomorrow morning; they plan to practice on the Charles tomorrow and Friday. Both the first and second eights are bringing their own shells, one of which, according to Mr. Herbert Reed of the New York Evening Post, "is one of the triumphs of the shell builder's art", carrying all the weight of the heavy first eight and not "sousing down" at the finish of the pull-through...
Service, however as a builder of character was the point on which Mr. Trumbull laid most stress. He showed how a man gets out of college exactly what he put into it, in the way of service. And he pointed out the opportunity which Phillips Brooks House offer as an outlet for service...
...stimulating rather than satisfying. He contends that the college stresses memory at the expenses of intellect, that the function of a university should be to teach the youth how to think, that Harvard teaches only what has been thought. Quite true. But he is a more skilful wrecker than builder. His Ideal University is unconvincing. Certainly this college and other American colleges are busied in filling brains instead of developing minds. This is inevitable. The present academic system, bad as it is, results naturally from the fact that the majority of college students are not students at all; they...
...Among the qualities most needed in a builder," said he, "the ability to think clear of one's class and to estimate a man as a man stands pre-eminent." He showed also the great need of co-operation between labor and capital in the vast reconstruction of the future...
...ideal craft with which to comb submarines is now being constructed. Henry Fond, otherwise known as the manufacturer of popular automobiles, has become a ship-builder. On his ways at Detroit he has already laid the keel of a future terror of the seas. Since the Government found that Ford could turn out a most capable though small model of a normal-sized auto, it has requested him to devise a destroyer on the same principles. These boats will be completed as rapidly as possible, probably...