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...effect of the war on English universities is strikingly illustrated by a set of figures given in the Cambridge Review, relating to Cambridge University. This article states that only 665 students are at present enrolled in the university, as compared with 1,227 at this time last year, and a normal enrollment of about 3,000. The article states further that 1,723 Cambridge men had been put out of action up to January 18. Of these 697 had been killed, 892 wounded, and 134 missing. Among these were many of the most famous of the Cambridge athletes. The total...
...communications. Some of the very fair, though iconoclastic, remarks of Professor Channing were reported to the press and hopelessly twisted and colored. A flagrant instance of the same sort of indiscretion or faithlessness occurred three years ago in connection with an article of Professor Muensterberg's. It had its effect,--almost causing the expulsion of the offender,--but college generations are short, and this may now be forgotten...
Cornell authorities have signed their track coach, John Moakley, to a ten-year contract, the new agreement to go into effect next September. Coach Moakley has been at Cornell seventeen years, and has been eminently successful there. During his regime, Cornell has won six intercollegiates in track and fourteen in cross-country...
...Anne Wood. The Armory was decorated in black and white with the university crew shell hanging above the centre of the hall. Supper and intermission came at 1 o'clock, after the twelfth dance. The lighting of several of the dances by spotlights from the balconies produced a novel effect. The festivities of Prom. week ended at 5 o'clock when the end of the dance order was reached...
...civilizations of the East and West came into clash, the open-door policy was forced upon China. She suffered humiliations and defeats at the hands of the western invaders, and finally realized that she must strive to adapt herself to new conditions. A series of reforms were already in effect before the Manchu dynasty was overthrown. Of these, the educational policy underwent the most radical change. Western scientific courses were introduced, and the examinations on old classics were abolished. Today schools for new learning stand on the ground of the spacious examination halls...