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Because Editor Reed Harris of the Columbia Spectator (undergraduate daily) was expelled last fortnight there was a mass meeting at the base of Columbia University's gilt alma mater statue. Rated by some a publicity-seeker, by others an able crusader, Editor Harris was conspicuous last winter with charges of professionalism in Columbia football (TIME, Nov. 23) and lately with attacks on the management of John Jay Dining Hall, whose food and sanitary conditions he claimed were poor. Columbia's Dean Herbert Edwin Hawkes announced that Student Harris was expelled for ''personal misconduct." But to many...
...broadside against the Yale School of Drama. In this trenchant indictment of a strictly vocational institution glorified by an attractive title into a School of arts, the writer charges that the present institution was founded by money from Wall St. Alumni for the sole purpose of advertising their alma mater through its possession of a superior School of Drama...
Because they do not wish their alma mater turned into an advanced institution where everybody studies, studies, studies, most alumni of Stanford University were pleased last week. Acting President Robert Eckles Swain announced that the trustees had voted to abandon the plan which the late David Starr Jordan, Herbert Hoover and Ray Lyman Wilbur had favored: gradual elimination of the lower divisions of Stanford to make it a higher institution like Johns Hopkins...
...been hovering in my mind these many years, and I do therefore hereby bequeath the books which I used in writing on Cromwell and Friedrich to the President and Fellows of Harvard College, City of Cambridge State of Massachusetts, as a poor testimonial of my respect for that alma mater of so many of my Trans-Atlantic friends and as a token of the feelings above indicated towards the Great Country of which Harvard is the Chief School...
...Author is a product of the period he writes about, has had a good journalistic bird's-eye view of it. Graduated in 1912 from Harvard (where he worked on the Lampoon with Critic Robert Benchley, Artist Gluyas Williams), he went from a teaching job at his alma mater to the Atlantic Monthly, to the late Century Magazine as its managing editor, to the editorial staff of Harper's Magazine. He is now associate editor of Harper's. Though he has written much for magazines, Only Yesterday is his first book...