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...usual last-day filibuster did not develop in the Senate, which passed away calmly, giving hasty consideration to only a few minor bills. The House did not give over its closing hour or so tc songs as it often does. Instead there were eulogies and valedictories because Speaker Gillet was leaving to join the Senate. Representative Longworth, majority Floor Leader, retiring from that post to become Speaker, also spoke...
...open to the class of 1926. Reading of current periodicals and newspapers, and writing of editorials on topics of the day, will comprise most of the work. Four editorials a week will be required at the beginning of the period. The competition offers an unusual opportunity for men to develop style and originality in writing. Clear and constructive thought will be emphasized especially, and this training should prove of great value to candidates. This competition offers the last chance for members of the class of 1926 to compete for the CRIMSON Board...
Those students who have found time and opportunity to develop their bodies and their social natures, and at the same time, to achieve distinction in their studies, deserve the highest honors the University can bestow upon them. Undergraduates already recognize them as leaders. The other group--the worshippers of a "Rank List" ideal need help of some kind from the College to put them on the path toward complete development. This is just as truly a duty as that of keeping tab on a student's academic standing, for after all, a college has only one function, that of training...
...materialistic philosophies have tended to throw too much emphasis upon that which is immediately useful. This attitude adopted in the colleges crowns the athlete with laurel and scorns the scholar toiling alone in his garret. But more and more true scholarship is coming into its own. As American universities develop greater background they are placing greater emphasis upon intellectual values. The recognition most appreciated by the true student is that which, like the Guggenheim Fellowships, not merely acknowledges past merit but opens the door to continued study and greater achievement...
...years ago, settled in Cleveland. O. P., the elder by two years of these two quiet, clear-eyed, clear-headed young men, took an option on some pasture land three miles out beyond the farthest car line and began to subdivide it into building lots. They began to develop it and, after a time, found that they had to have transit lines, that they would have to furnish transit themselves. So they opened negotiations with the Nickel Plate Railroad, which had a right of way that they wanted, and in somewhat fabulous fashion concluded the negotiations by purchasing the whole...