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...generation or more ago the Hemenway Gymnasium was an object of pride and amply served the needs of the University of its time. Since then the college and the graduate schools have grown enormously. The capacity of the gymnasium is now taxed to the utmost, while the facilities offered are in many cases antiquated and unsatisfactory. The small size of the basketball court furnishes an excellent example of this...
...York Times of April 2 describes the ensuing panic among those grown-up members of the University who had lost the adolescent regard for April Fool's Day that the Princetonian so well retained. But those professors who thought the editors so needlessly childish should have remembered that April 1 is just as much a recognized holiday at Princeton as May Day or Hallowe'en. Such gentle campus humors should be encouraged in far away Nassau and the office should take a little joke now and then...
...speaking about the possibility of a union between Jews and Christians, Dr. Wise said. "It is a most unfortunate thing that the Jews and Christians have become so separated during the ages and that so great a misunderstanding has grown up between them. The Christians are apt to think only of the Jews who crucified Christ, not the Jews who bore him and trained him, and gave him his religion. The Jews and Christians will never unite and lose their individual religions, but it is most necessary that they co-operate with each other since their religions are so closely...
...presence of Mr. Richards in Boston is associated with the campaign being organized for the Fellowship of Youth for Peace. This organization, which was begun in 1923 at a convention at Indianapolis, is to be patterned after similar movement which have grown in Germany, England, Switzerland and Japan to be powerful units. It is expected that Mr. Richards will attempt to stimulate interest among Harvard students in the New England branch of the work...
...Sturly did not comprehend. Now grown a mail-clad Titan of 500 pounds, he sounded back into the black-glimmering, life-bearing abysses where it seemed all truth must be hidden. He searched the shimmering shoals and sea-gardens of all the oceans, as it is a Sturgeon's destiny to do. He knew all the fish, which ate which, and observed how the vast submarine cosmoplasm is also a vast necropolis...