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While the athletic breach between Harvard and Princeton remains officially as wide as ever, the Crimson and the Princetonian will tomorrow morning take another step toward unofficially spanning the gap. Tomorrow the journalistic nines of the two colleges will meet in their second annual diamond clash. The equipment of the rival teams will probably be more colorful than useful, catchers will catch without masks, base runners will worry little about hit and run or squeeze plays, and few people will probably bother to remember the score. Whatever the outcome, however--whether the game last four or fourteen innings--the occasion...
...opinion between the secondary school and the college still stretches, deep and dangerous, across the flat of America's democratic education. Charges from the one side or the other are vain material to build a bridge across; experiment and experience are the two cables that must finally span the gap...
...face of Dean Hanford's figures and the long recognized problem of the two factors--the real and the "gentleman" student--it may be safely supposed that the next step in education is logically the official recognition of the gap. This conclusion is based upon the hypothesis that every man who takes his studies seriously and spends the requisite amount of time on them should be capable of attaining at least a high C average. If this statement sounds too startling in view of the number of men on probation and those who maintain a precarious low C level...
...first called them "The Great Smokies," from the smoldering haze that hangs upon them, no one knows. They stretch for 200 miles northeast and southwest paralleling the Blue Ridge (40 miles southeast). Master chain of the Appalachians, they wall off Tennessee from North Carolina. Near a place called Indian Gap, the snag-toothed divide is so sharp that a mountaineer's misstep would plunge him dizzily into one State or the other...
...Sterling has not been daunted. In Harvard Square, long stigmatized as the capital of Massachusetts pornographia, he found but one objectionable book, which was withdrawn with the bookseller's apology that it was on sale only because the man upstairs wrote it. Thus did purity leap the water gap...