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...beyond your first conjectures of a college has Harvard grown; changed in form and curriculum it assuredly is; but the ideals which you raised are still our ideals; the verities you would uphold are still our beliefs, and your Veritas is still our banner of advance...
...summer sessioners be counted out. The teaching staff has 959 members. The original faculty, the whole corps of instructors, in the good old Colony times and beginnings of King's College, was its first President, Dr. Samuel Johnson, and his undergraduates were eight. In our own time Columbia has grown gigantically. She is become a great national and cosmopolitan university...
...Harvard the increased cost has been due in a considerable measure to the large and constant growth of the number of men who participate in athletics. In 1914, 1,472 men were so engaged; in 1915 the number had grown to 1,847. Everyone who desires is now given an opportunity to work on a squad, even though he stands the smallest chance of ever making a University team. Valuable as this policy undoubtedly is, more athletes mean more athletic supplies, more coaches, and consequently larger expenses...
...postpone opening in spite of infantile paralysis should allay the fears of people who have become unduly alarmed over the spread of the disease. Dr. Lee points out that only two per cent, of cases occur in persons over ten years of age, and that the danger to grown persons is very slight. Of course proper attention should be given to good habits of eating, sleeping and exercise, but these general precautions are considered sufficient to protect the hundreds of young men who come together in class rooms and dormitories from all over the country. If the public would take...
...perhaps the most important work," continued Mr. Carter, "is done in the great concentration camps which have grown up. Lectures by professors of local universities have been arranged, thereby starting a bond of friendship between the prisoners and their captors...