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...Cornell, Pennsylvania, Dartmouth, Syracuse, and possibly Columbia, based upon the Yale, Princeton, Harvard rapprochement. The Times article further suggests that the smaller colleges feel the need of such a union to maintain a balance of power against the Big Three, whose mutual reconstruction policy, they believe to contain the element of exclusiveness toward other universities...
...planned to arrange the summer camps so as to include different college units within the same camp, in order to instill the element of competition and esprit de corps...
...undergraduate is too often apt to regard his professors as machines to shovel knowledge into his head. He forgets the human element. But if he glances back over the courses he has taken, he will realize that the ones he liked best were given by men he admired. The characteristics of the instructor impress themselves on a student's mind. From one he gets a touch of humor; from another a new and broadening outlook on the questions...
...only the more hopeless reactionary element of the Bourbons and Tories who regard the President's peace proposals as a sort of half-way house to Bolshevism. Having more brains than the Bourbons and Tories, the real Bolsheviki have perceived from the outset that their real enemy was Wilsonism. That is why they unhesitatingly chose German autocracy as an ally and why they have resisted the President's program as bitterly as Junkertum itself...
This procedure is literally doing things by halves. The only practical as well as the only fair thing to do is to let this work count as a third of a course. It is bad enough juggling with thirds and two thirds without introducing the doubly complicated element of sixths. Give the Junior Company some real credit for what they have done. To their disappointment at being too young to enter the regular service ought not to be added the disappointment of having unrecognized what sincere efforts they have been able to make...