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...Eastern Universities are being eclipsed by our Western Universities. Their fault has been that they have gathered a group of preparatory school feeders, which send them the same type of man year after year...
...fearful that Harvard's broad tradition of scholarship and culture is being sacrificed to the more specialized development of the tutorial system and of certain graduate schools. It is admittedly difficult to strike a satisfactory balance between athletics and scholarship in a college: certainly no just observer can find fault with President Lowell for his present course...
...evening (Eastern Time) when a series of quivers began. They were felt all through New England and New York, ebbing away but still perceptible as far south as Washington and as far west as Chicago, and also in Canada. The quivers lasted for about four minutes. A fault or crack in the rock strata, either the Logan's Fault coming down from Canada, via Lake Champlain and the northern Hudson Valley, or the Fundian Fault which runs southwest off the Maine coast, from the Bay of Fundy, is believed to have been responsible. The records on seismographs seem...
...advertisement in your paper of Feb. 23, an advertisement of The Forum magazine, displaying an article, Civilization, by Ralph Adams Cram, and a , picture of the New York Cathedral, St. John "-the Divine"- with the statement that the Cathedral was designed by Cram. If my memory is not at fault, the original architect was John La Farge, a considerable part of whose plan was embodied in stone. One regrets that a page of TIME should carry what is at least unfair, even if not inaccurate. Doubtless you understand that I do not wish to detract from the fame...
...breaking the world time in the 70-yard dash on the M. I. T. track is known to be authentic. Fletcher, the hurdler who broke into fame last week, has shown by the consistant repetition of his world record performance that the stopwatches at Mechanics Hall were not at fault...