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Last year when the CRIMSON published its "extra" on the day of the Princeton game, it was only "the fault of that Princeton guy (Beattle, who ran for a touchdown a minute before the game ended) that we didn't start to run the copies off one second after the game ended," as one of the compositors declared. As it was, only 34 seconds were needed...
...since the War; Memorial Hall was finally closed this year because it was found impossible to coerce or cajole enough students into going there to make the place pay. The great mass of our undergraduates shovel down their food at quick-lunches or self-service cafeterias. This is no fault of the College. It represents a deep difference in social customs which the College is powerless to change...
...sure, a fairly general failure to recognize the value of discipline simply as discipline. Side by side stand two critiques of English courses, the first of which proclaims utter scorn of collegiate study of "elementary grammar," and the second of which opens with a sentence that involves a glaring fault in sequence of tenses. This is laughable enough, and possibly serious. But other reviewers show a warm recognition even of the worth of discipline, whenever the hand that guides it is worthy. Indeed, the whole sheaf of forty notices indicate clear coincidence of undergraduate opinion, based upon the experience...
What the President said in reply is not known, but only the day before he had told newspaper men that the fault was not with Secretary Work but with Congress, which had refused to pass the Administration's measures for allowing deferred payment to the settlers on reclamation projects...
...impress, the other to be impressed; one to stimulate, the other to respond. This response is education. Given all the rest, if the response be not forthcoming, then scholarly research, elaborate equipment, and the best system in the world are meaningless. There is no education. The one fault which in a professor constitutes an unpardonable sin is failure to interest the rank and file of sincere but uninspired students...