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...special positions in connection with the Class Day exercises. Thomas Redound Thayer of Brooklyn, N. Y., was elected treasurer; Thomas Crane Wales of Chestnut Hill and Arthur Dean Hamilton, of Milton were jointly placed in charge of the Senior Spread; George Store Baldwin Jr. of Chestnut Hill was made master of the College Yard for Class Day; Hamilton MacFadden of Cambridge was given control of all arrangements in connection with Sanders Theatre and Appleton Chapel; and Kenneth Campbell of Mt. Hamilton, Cal., was placed in charge of the Stadium exercises...
Gorky in his few pages gives a master ful picture of the man Tolstoy as he saw him and knew him. It is always honest and sincere, a revelation, straight from the heart of the impression left by the overwhelming genius of Tolstoy upon a write and thinker of his own time and country...
...themselves for their considerable advance toward perfect expression in language. Moreover, professors and literati, who have hitherto gazed haughtily down upon the rabble from the rarified heights of correct speech, would suffer a righteous degradation. Yet it is never too late to learn, and these latter might in time master the new idiom. It would certainly be amusing to hear the ingenuous members of English A rebuked for using "isn't" instead of "aint...
When members of the corporation are criticised for naming a Harvard graduate as the next president of Yale they point to the fact that Conneticut has been filling up with Harvard alumni as its educational heads for years, that virtually every head master in Connection; preparatory schools is a Harvard man and that the Governor of the state, Everett Lake, is a Harvard graduate. When Lake, who by virtue of his office is a member of the Yale Corporation, is criticised for taking part in the election of a Harvard graduate as Yale president he is able to point...
Among the visiting teachers in the thirty summer courses in Education, which for the first time may be counted for the University degree of Master of Education by qualified students, are to be Dr. Frank W. Ballou '14, superintendent of schools in the city of Washington; J. J. Mahoney '03, state supervisor of Americanization for Massachusetts; Clarence D. Kingsley, superintendent of high schools for Massachusetts and chairman of an important commission of the National Education Association; and Eugene R. Smith, headmaster of the Park School at Baltimore, who has recently been chosen to be the head of the new Country...