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...Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday will be spent near Syracuse, returning to Boston Thursday evening. The expense of the round trip wil be about twenty dollars. If desired, the excursion will be extended by returning by way of the upper Susquehanna River, Wilkesbarre, the Delaware Water Gap, and New York, reaching Boston Sunday morning, April 24. This excursion is open to any member of the University. Those desiring to take either the short or the long trip are requested to report to Professor Davis not later than the Geological Conference of April...
...racial difference, a part of the responsibility may be laid upon nature, though even a national boundary ceases to be the scene of conflict in proportion as the members of the separated groups come to know one another through travel and commerce. Mutual intercourse tends to bridge the gap which nature established, and consequently to remove the cause of international conflict...
Modern industrial conditions have created a social gap by grouping numbers of men as employees in large industrial establishments, cut off from knowledge of their employers and from acquaintance with them. It is seldom that the owners of such establishments know their own employees, or are known by them. Under such conditions it is as natural that there should be jealousies and misunderstandings between the groups thus separated as it is that there should be sectional and international jealousies where there is little mutual intercourse and acquaintance. It is toward the closing up of this social gap that all effective...
...mental education, as in physical, the weak point should be developed; the other, that the profit is greatest where the strongest interests lie. A student can hardly be expected to throw the weight of his energy into work that is odious; but he should never leave college with a gap in his mental development. Again, authorities disagree on the advisability of preparing for graduate work by the study of kindred subjects in college. In any case no greater mistake can be made than to attempt to anticipate the actual work of a graduate school, at the expense of general knowledge...
...relay of the Harvard Pennsylvania race, J. E. Haigh '03, by sprinting at the start, took the pole, which was a great advantage on the narrow track, and finished about five yards ahead of Cook of Pennsylvania. W. G. Clerk '01 ran a hard race and opened up a gap of about 40 yards over M. J. Westney, which was increased to almost half a lap by E. C. Rust '04. J. G. Wills '02 also gained on the last relay and won the race by over half a lap. The time, 3m. 11 1-5a., lowers the record...