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...current number of the Alumni Bulletin, Eidon Griffin '16 suggests that the prestige of this degree could be restored by reserving it for those who wish to secure a command of their subject for intellectual rather than professional reasons. In order to enhance its distinction, he would require two years of graduate residence instead of the single one now prescribed. The work of these two years would be cultural rather than technical. The aspirant for this degree, though left more to his own resources than he had been in his undergraduate career, would still have access to lectures...
...dear Zizi: Being obliged to leave and again command my regiment at the front, I do not know what may happen. I wish you to keep this letter as recognition on my part that I am the father of the child which you will have and that I have never ceased, in spite of the annulment of our marriage, to consider myself as your husband. I kiss...
...University football and who was no less in touch with the most recent development of the sport elsewhere. It wanted also an able strategist, a teacher of a sound game, but most of all it wanted a leader of the same high type that has invariably been in command of football at Harvard. All these desiderata the new appointment satisfies to a nicety...
...greatest live game collecting expedition ever attempted" had been planned, financed, prepared and was ready to start for African jungles. There was no Roosevelt in command, as there had been on the Field Museum trip and on the Smithsonian expedition of 1909. But there was this about the new expedition: It was, like the Field Museum trip, financed by a noted U. S. business man, by Walter P. Chrysler, whose low-hung, high-speed little motor cars have been darting through the land with wide acclaim in the past three years...
...Debating Union, they have expressed the hope of placing the organization on a surer footing. Although, manifestly, these endeavors have so far been ineffectual, it is nevertheless a truth that only greater continuity and regularity of action can lift the Debating Union from its present mediocrity. It cannot command the confidence and loosen the tongues of the students who are mildly interested in it until its effectiveness is no longer sacrificed to delayed starts, jerky progress, and weak endings...