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...engaged in the training of ministers. There are four or five Divinity Schools in the United States, non-sectarian in character, which are, as Harvard Divinity School is, integral parts of large universities. There are perhaps twenty or twenty-five more theological schools on independent foundations which profess to maintain academic standards of university level. Below these is a successions of seminaries of lower standards which resolve themselves. Finally into little more than schools of vocational guidance for students of hardly more than high-school grade...
...arrival of the first ballots in the Literary Digest peace poll again arouses a question concerning the value of such expressions of undergraduate opinion. The sponsors of the poll, maintain that it will crystallize the attitude of students against war, thus, presumably, serving to maintain peace. The discussion that inevitably accompanies the completion of the ballots is intended to stimulate thought on the subject...
...Committee, composed of President Conant, Mr. Hanford, and Dean Leighton, has served as a "clearing center," leaving most of the initiative to the House authorities, who have the opportunity to act favorably on their applications, Mr. Hanford says. The Committee's task in his eyes is to maintain a check on distribution, although to be sure-groups of six or eight men are always permitted to enter a House together...
...angry displeasure at those who do not play his game. For those who dance to his piping he frequently finds good jobs as pressagents in various Government bureaus. He is also given credit for conceiving the President's "fireside" broadcasts and arranging them at such intervals as to maintain the maximum amount of public interest...
Little is known of the calibre of the opponents, as this is their opening game, but no such pushover as occurred on Saturday is expected. The Providence quintet has a strong reputation from past years to maintain, and while the Crimson cohorts should emerge on the long end, the victory will be no easy...