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...Presidents." She asked Congress to let the Vice President live in her $300,000 mansion on 15th Street. Representative Ernest Willard Gibson of Vermont prepared a bill accepting Mrs. Henderson's gift for the nation, and appropriating $30,000 to furnish the place, $25,000 per annum to maintain...
...negotiations in regard to football should be postponed until such date as a mutually satisfactory policy can be agreed upon. But, in the meantime, there appends no compelling reason, from the undergraduate viewpoint, for continuing a wholesale sacrifice of all sports to a dispute that began over one. To maintain a hands-off attitude for the sake of football incompatibility alone would seem a clear overemphasis of that sport. --Daily Princetonian...
...Miner on January 23 will tell what will happen to children if the advice given in the preceding talks is not followed. Dr. Wilinsky on January 27 will show how necessary dental treatment is at this time as a means of preventing general diseases and of helping the physician maintain health in the young child...
...university executive officer today, and it is a natural result that the teacher should tend to be depressed into the status of a salaried "employee" of the undertaking of which he should be the center. The type of learned society which the English universities have been able to maintain and which seventy-five years ago characterized the faculties of the best American universities is dissolving under the rush of other matters and interests. "The teaching staff," says Dr. Henderson, "should be partners in a noble enterprise, not employees in an industry. A university should be a self-governing fellowship...
...agreement with the protest cannot conceal the fact that it is still a protest against the whole spirit of the time, which can express itself only through the instrumentalities that are natural to it. Anachronisms cannot be maintained even by universities, and the Yale, say, of 1850, when a paternal president gathered his little group of faculty and scholars about him under the New Haven elms and discoursed wisdom, is beyond recovery. What, of course, can be done is to adjust the best that was in the old to the conditions of the new. In this particular question it seems...