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The specific propositions of President Hopkins are briefly, that eligibility for university teams be limited to Sophomores and Juniors, that two major teams of equal strength be developed to play with opponents on a home and home basis, and that professional or graduate coaching be replaced by undergraduate direction. The...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE DARTMOUTH PLAN | 3/22/1927 | See Source »

Granted the possible weakness of American law forces; granted the success of those of England; not granted, however, that the American criminal--especially of the bandit gunman genre--is the average criminal. Perhaps even the Liverpool police would be some what disconcerted, if stationed, for instance, in Cicero, III. In...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT | 10/16/1926 | See Source »

There is then no flattering comparison, or no insulting deduction. But the rules of the totem, its taboos and its legends, are fairly well-known to us now, in the examples that have been found among primitive or barbaric races. What we fall to do is to realize that the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE | 6/24/1926 | See Source »

It is of course a far cry to the days when philosophers sat at Paris and decreed the fate of the medieval church and of its imperial counterpart. The university has changed with the philosopher; neither one is today what it was yesterday, and both have windmills which engage their...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PHILOSOPHY AND LIFE | 6/22/1926 | See Source »

If such a state of affairs came to pass today we should say, "Ah, an eclipse." British astronomers have, according to despatches last week, determined that the only total solar eclipse visible from Ithaca, home of Ulysses, during the first quarter of the 12th Century B. C., occurred at 11...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Darkness of Erebus | 5/17/1926 | See Source »

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