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...function of a college has been defined as the production of college trained minds, whereas the function of a university is to afford those college-trained minds the opportunity of acquiring a more specific store of actual knowledge. And indeed this analysis seems a fair description of the present system. What Dean West recommends, however, is the relegation of this function of training minds to the preparatory schools. The college would there-upon become less of a disciplinary institution, and more a place of acquiring real education. The helpless feeling which is common to many Freshman during the first months...
...Jubilee marks an ending, unofficial as it may be, of the first year of college, and like most Freshman Institutions and customs, it is an effort to amalgamate the different units of the class. It is the last function of a year in which every effort has been made to break down class and school barriers. With the other features of the Jubilee, the competition between hall choruses assumes an important place; it is the swan song of the year...
Later, when given an opportunity to speak, he said: "It is all right for the United States, England and Japan to establish a limit for their armaments because they are nations that are already functioning normally, but Russia has not begun to function normally; we have not yet reached normal conditions in our international agreements. We would be stabbing in the dark if we committed ourselves at this time...
...second half, however, the Crimson attack utterly failed to function. For 18 minutes not a single goal dropped through the Harvard hoop. Meanwhile the Brunonians were piling up a 22 to 5 margin, with Tsukuno, diminutive Japanese forward, leading the attack. Coach Chase's players came to life with two minutes to go and their belated rally netted three goals...
Between halves Gordon and Smith donned uniforms and took their places in the line-up. Gordon dropped in enough of his customary long shots to cut down the Amherst margin, but the Crimson teamwork still failed to function and the final whistle found another black mark chalked up against the University quintet's record. The all-around play of Maher was the most encouraging feature of his team's dispirited performance. Lamberton excelled for Amherst...