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Yesterday was practically the first time during the season that Coach Bingham has been able to hold track work under ideal weather conditions. Since the spring vacation Soldiers Field has been swept almost every day by cold weather and winds. And although this fact has probably not affected the runners materially, it has been a handicap. The Yale and Princeton squads further south have not had the same difficulty...
Such a college would fail of its objective, if manned by a group of foreign professors, however brilliant. A faculty, equal in training to a similar group of Americans, but themselves natives of the country, belonging to and understanding thoroughly the people, must be the ideal. Such a faculty had come into existence before the war, and already there had been a first generation of three such pioneer teachers, trained at Yale and Amherst. The professors of the second generation were men, graduated first at Aintab, who had taken postgraduate work abroad in America, France, Germany or Great Britain...
...Ideal to Train Natives...
Definitely, the ideal of the college is not to make Americans or semi-Americans, but to train native leaders for the country of their birth. Therefore, instead of attempting to segregate students and impress them with foreign ideals, they are left in contact with their normal environment so that there may be a continual interplay and progressive and natural adjustment between new truth and the old life. The college is content to introduce germinal ideas, expecting them to become dynamic in natural, indigenous ways. It would be of little benefit to Turkey to turn out emigrants to America, men whose...
...second-hand dealers for as much as they can get; every fall at the opening of the term there are as many persons who must furnish rooms, and who for the most part go to these same dealers for the necessary furniture. For the dealers, this is an ideal situation; those leaving college are helpless and must accept what the dealers offer; the new arrivals are almost as helpless and must pay them whatever is asked. The trade between individual students is so small as to have no effect on the general situation; that carried on through the medium...