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...about which you speak in your editorial is a compliment to our undergraduate intelligence. How ludicrous all this agitation about the stadium! Was it not sufficient that the omnipotent athletic publicists were able to get so much printed about the matter without having tried to bring it to the forum and working up a factitious interest in it? It was carefully stated that the "parliamentary rather than formal manner of debate" would be used. Figs! You might as well talk about draping the stage of the Odeon with meshed gold and silver and then put on a puppet show...
...superficially imposed reading periods and tutorial systems in the world. Yes, a larger and more beautiful stadium would be just as desirable and welcome as a ventilating system in the basement of Widener;--but let us give some real meaning to a debating union by bringing to its forum the intellectual problems that prick the consciences of our undergraduates and by making it a hot bed where ideas can germinate and find a voice. Sydney Hubert Blackstone...
Several circumstances in the city of Rome demanded the Pope's attention. One was the solemn benediction performed, near the Forum, by an abbot and a troupe of assorted monks, upon a bevy of parked automobiles. Holy water was sprinkled upon the radiators of the cars in honor of Santa Francesca Romana, a patroness of motorists. The other circumstances were connected with Vatican Bond Issue, sold in the U. S., to finance the building of the College for the Propaganda of the Faith, potent Catholic Missionary institution. The Pope had summoned George William Cardinal Mundelein of Chicago to Rome...
...current issue of the Forum President Lowell once more enters into the debatable land of modern education. In his article "Self-Education in the College" he advances his famous hypothesis that all higher education in its best form is self-education under guidance. In doing so he seeks to sever from the hydra-headed contemporary scholastic monster what many prominent educators have come to regard as the caput mortuum of every university, the principle of discipline as distinguished from the principle of letting men think out things for themselves...
...talk that plans were on foot for a $15,000,000 opera house to have two auditoriums-one of 3,500-4,000 capacity for orchestral concerts, for the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company and for visits of the Metropolitan; the other of 1,200-1,500 for the Philadelphia forum and intimate recitals...