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...further safeguard against lowering the College standard, men so admitted might easily be required to maintain a higher record in their College work...
...have the affection and admiration of other university already. You read the other day now Yale had of her own initiative disqualified five athletes for unwitting infraction of amateur rules, and you read that Harvard begged Yale not to do it. You may think that is quixotic, but I maintain that it is the true spirit of sportsmanship among gentlemen...
...Choate spoke of "Dana as a Citizen, Lawyer, and Writer on International Law." Mr. Dana's first venture in politics, in his thirty-second year, he said, marked clearly his independence of spirit, his love of the right, and determination to maintain it at whatever cost, and his clear foresight into the political future. He hated the Abolitionists, who were altogether too unconventional for him, but he made his debut in political life as chairman of the Free Soil Meetings at the Tremont Temple. He declared: 'I am a Free Soiler because I am (who should...
...University has decided to maintain for an additional period of six months the hospital unit which has been carried on for wounded English soldiers in France. When the service was established in the summer, Columbia, Johns Hopkins, and the University proposed to carry it on for nine months, each institution being responsible for three months of service. The Harvard unit was organized and it has conducted the hospital for almost three months, but Columbia and Johns Hopkins found that they could not obtain a satisfactory outfit of surgeons and nurses at this time of the year. The University will, therefore...
...date 18 clubs have entered this year's qualifying tournament, which promises to be the most closely contested that has ever been held. A club must maintain a membership of eight men and each club will argue six cases with competitors determined by the advisers. No man however, will be allowed to argue more than once until at least six other members of the club have argued...