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...Princeton University will be enlarged next fall in order to make it possible hereafter to grant degrees in mechanical, mining, chemical, and electrical engineering, according to the announcement made by Dr. John Grier Hibben, president of the university. At present Princeton has only the undergraduate course leading to the civil engineer diploma, and a two-year graduate course for the electrical engineer degree...
Applications for membership in the Unit will be open until today, and the necessary blanks may be obtained from S. R. McCandles, Arch. School, Robinson Hall, or from the Office in Robinson Hall. Men who are following courses in Architecture and Civil Engineering may apply for membership; a certain number of non-technical students will be accepted if they are sufficiently versed in the French language. The colleges sending quotas in the Unit are: Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania and Yale...
Through the kindness of Dean J. H. Ropes '89, of Cotuit, three Civil War flags of the Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, 20th Regiment, will be encased upon the east wall of Memorial Hall. The flags were donated to the Regiment by friends, at its organization in 1861. They have passed into the hands of the University through Colonel William Raymond Lee, commander of the Regiment in 1861, who left them to his former adjutant, Colonel Charles Lawrence Peirson, who in turn left them to the University. Colonel Peirson died recently and his nephew, Professor Theodore Lyman, '97 and Dean Ropes have...
...before. Forty-five colleges sent delegates, and among the speakers were such prominent men as President Eliot and Dean Briggs of the University, Walter Lippmann, and editor of "The New Republic", Edwin F. Ladd, the non-partisan League senator from North Dakota, Francis Nelson. Editor of "The Footman", and Civil Liberties Bureau. More than 500 H. N. Mac Cracken'05, President of the people were present at the dinner on Saturday night, and an equally large number attended the luncheon on Sunday afternoon...
...fourth speaker was R. N. Baldwin '05, the head of the Civil Liberties Bureau. He said that although George Washington has received all the credit for feeling this country, it was Thomas Paine who stirred the people by his marvelous writing; and that although Abraham Lincoln is justly praised as the great leader of the North in the Civil War, it was William Lloyd Garrison, the archpacifist, who aroused the public by his writing. He said that the Liberal League must not be satisfied with thinking and talking about the questions of the day, but must catch the spirit...