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...snowball situation is not a matter for deep concern. It is a normal, healthy method of presenting a fellow creature with a black eye and an exercise without which no childhood is complete. But in childhood snowballs did not cost ten cents apiece. One evening last winter cost a class now in the University something like a thousand dollars for broken windows. Assume that five hundred men went into action, each throwing twenty snowballs. The rate per snowball comes to ten cents...
...consideration of men of the student body the conviction that here among us the influences are too much toward hammering out on the anvil of conventional sentiment 'a standardized type; Not that this tendency may not be too much present in American colleges in general, but our present concern is with Dartmouth life! Given common convictions against the cheap, the low, the unintelligent and the evil, the greater the variety of types and of attributes among Dartmouth men, the stronger the College will be. The evidence of the fault may be taken from less consequential things as well as from...
...member who chooses to remain anonymous. In the first place students of modern languages will find here an inexhaustible mine of present day idiomatic writing in five languages. Secondly, and more important perhaps, students of political and economic subjects will have an unequalled source of reliable information concerning conditions on the Continent and the opinions of editorial writers there. At a time when our own newspapers are filled with wild conjectures as to the financial status of Germany and Austria, for instance, the facts which are published in Vienna and Frankfurt are of more than passing concern. And thirdly...
Unemployment, nowadays, is a national evil; but at present there is a local aspect of it which is of more concern to Ithacans and Cornellians than the national problem. The Cornell University Employment Bureau in Barnes Hall is faced with hundreds of applicants for work, with very few positions to fill. There are many students in the University who are dependent on what they can earn to pay their way through college. Their predicament is no slight one if they cannot find work...
...Institute was made possible through the generosity of Mr. Bernard Baruch, who had the idea of creating a regular summer meeting of scholars, teachers, business men, and others interested in the questions. His thought was that today more than ever, international politics are of great concern to us in the United States; and that with the immense position we now hold in the world with its opportunities, responsibilities, and perhaps, dangers, it is of utmost importance to build up in this country an intelligent understanding of world politics...