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...subject as my folks have lived in the South since the year one, and I consider myself just as "genuine'' a Southerner as any of the "professionals" that live in New York, Texas or elsewhere. My father fought the Yankees for four years and I was nearly grown before I knew that "Damyankee" was two words. Moreover, I am somewhat unreconstructed as yet; I don't believe that Abraham Lincoln was the greatest man in the world and I believe in state rights; in fact I have an idea that I feel about Lincoln and the things...
...graduation. Many years ago a comprehensive study of our educational methods was made by a committee of the Faculty, and out of its report came the present scheme of concentration and distribution, replacing the old elective system. Indirectly, also, the plan of general examinations and the tutorial system have grown out of this study. So the Faculty has done its share in reorganizing the curriculum during the past decade. Now let the undergraduates tell us what they think of the outcome and make some constructive suggestions for a further him improvement, as we hope they...
...youngest member of the Cabinet, came out of the Middle West. He was graduated from Harvard in 1900. In those days he was a great tennis player, No. 2 on the U. S. list of singles players. He gave the Davis cup, which year by year has grown more famous, and in 1900 and 1901 he was on the team defending it. One of his contributions to tennis was the reverse twist service. But he went back to his native St. Louis and went into public life as a promoter of parks and playgrounds. As Park Commissioner he announced...
Innovations. At the opening session of the Court, Chief Justice Taft read the original docket, some of the cases on which are 20 years old-the first occasion on which it has been done in years. As usual the docket had grown by some 100 cases. The Court is more than two years behind in its business. The object of reading the docket was to put in force new regulations given to the Court by act of the last Congress, empowering it to decline to hear many cases and thus abbreviate its docket. Among the cases thrown out under this...
...Madras declared roundly before the Congress that the white man must let down the color bar to other races, in order to avoid an inter-racial war in the future. Said he: "Providence long ago placed the white man in a position of trusteeship . . . Now his colored wards have grown up . . . He can no longer dominate them . . . He must treat all colored men in a spirit of absolute equality . . . A clash of races would be the ghastliest tragedy in history...