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...opportunities for enlightenment and learning extend even farther beyond the range of books than is the case at Harvard. The exhaustive inquiries into contemporary politics with constant delvings into the Classic or Medieval for parallel or contrast leave the unsophisticated American bewildered--he had thought it was to be a harmless tea-party with the conventional small-talk. All kinds of contacts will be made and a good many dissolved in the course of such a year but all leave their impression...
...comes the news that "The United States Government, through accredited representatives, holds that the classic works of Rabelais are obscene, indecent and immoral and likely to corrupt the public"! Shades of Romanticism and Dean Swift! Rabelais is damned forever...
...examples which President Lowell cites--arithmetic, physics, the classic languages--may seem to apply more directly to elementary education. In fact his whole argument is a suggestion for teaching children how to learn, rather than teaching them the objects of that learning. This, one may argue, is the purpose of primary and preparatory education, and should be regarded as a prerequisite, to college. When a student enters college, it might he supposed that he knows how to study, and that college is the place for him to apply such knowledge...
With T. J. Campbell '23 still in the running, Yale has a sure point winner in the 880-yard run. Campbell won the 880 in the Harvard-Yale meet, and came in well ahead of the field in the Oxford-Cambridge classic last summer. D. S. Bush '24, who placed third against the Crimson yearlings, will also be available for this department next spring. These two men will, in addition, probably be entered in the 1 mile run, both having placed in this event in their meets with the University...
...University, with a total of 195 points, took eighth place in the thirteenth annual intercollegiate cross-country run on the new Van Cortlandt Park course, in New York City yesterday afternoon. Cornell, placing six men out of the first ten to cross the tape, won the harrier classic, for the ninth time, registering a low record of 18 points, while her nearest competitor, Princeton, ran up a score of 87. Syracuse was third with 108, while Yale was fourth in the team standing, with 111 points against her. R. E. Brown of Cornell won individual honors finishing in 32 minutes...