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Many have grown so accustomed to hearing about the Union as a failure that the possibility of its being a financial success has never occurred to them. These men particularly should first look at the facts of the case, then discuss the question, and after coming to some definite conclusion, vote intelligently...
...gowns, as it seemed to many that a special garment for the Class Day exercises was a needless expense. Also, it served as a badge by which members of the class could recognize each other--that was before such "ancient traditions" of Senior dormitories and class buttons had grown...
Increasingly American business life is pervades by the professional spirit. It has grown in response to pressure from within and to a quickened social sense from without. It was large-scale business, complex and with many public contacts, that has first felt these forces, and therefore has sought systematically to enlist broadly trained men. The smaller concerns are now falling into line. Business leaders began looking for young men who could use their minds, who could analyze problems and take a fresh point of view. They found that college graduates were likely to have the qualities they sought, activity...
...merely cram men to pass bar examinations. Others are bona fide legal institutions, wielding considerable influence in making the law the technical and social profession which it should be. But with all this growth of other institutions--most of them using the Langdell system--the University Law School has grown in strength and reputation. Its popularity is attested by the large number of its students--more than half--who are graduates from the colleges of the West and South. Every Harvard graduating class sends dozens of men to the school. Recently twenty-nine Yale seniors announced their intention of attending...
...universities of these two countries a year ago, and it was found that, in proportion to the size, the University of Toronto led. This is explained by the fact that in Canada every child is trained to live outdoors in winter, and so it naturally follows that when grown up he continues to take part in winter sports. He has become a proficient skater, or snowshoer, or ski-runner, and when he goes to college he enters into these sports...