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...curt, jerky way you have of telling things. But you do tell the latest news, and one simply must keep up. Some of the letters you receive are terrible and you are good sports to print them so that all may see. As a rule, I find very little fault with you, but please don't call a child "it." I am a mother and know that that hurts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 21, 1925 | 12/21/1925 | See Source »

...either case, the Traffic Department is at fault. It would be very easy to put at least a Flashing Beacon at this corner such as they have at other corners that have merited the attention of the Department perhaps less than this one. Something could be done about this matter very cheaply...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shortcomings of the Constabulary | 12/18/1925 | See Source »

...evils which have crept into athletics are there not through any fault of the boys", continued Mr. Bingham, "but because of outside influences which could have been curbed had our faculties been willing to accept athletics as part of their problem instead of waiting until the evils had crept in. Too many of our educators have looked upon athletics as a distracting influence which ought to be suppressed rather than assimilated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bingham Blames Faculty for Overemphasis--Disagrees on Owen's Article but Admits Pendulum Has Swung Too Far | 12/11/1925 | See Source »

...stand of the Harvard CRIMSON, the Yale News has indorsed the general stand of the CRIMSON, the Princetonian assents to the fact that football bears too much importance in ratio of the importance given the curriculum, the Brown Daily Herald has said, "until some undesired evils, not the fault of the game itself, and which should never be associated with any sport, are removed, football can hardly be regarded as an unmitigated good." Undergraduates representing many colleges at the Wesleyan parley, with the exception of one, in a personal vote approved a radical readjustment of the present schedule system...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Only a Theory? | 12/11/1925 | See Source »

...here attributed to the lecture system at its best. Again, his lectures may be poor, perfunctory things, uninspired by philosophy and criticism, and hence lacking that necessary connection with the problems of life which marks the great difference between vital knowledge and statistics. When the latter is true, the fault lies with the man, not the system...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ABOLISH LECTURES? NO! | 12/7/1925 | See Source »

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