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...reach any definite and beneficial solution they must join hands with the colleges and the Board of Entrance Examiners. Until all three act at once and in accord, it is hopeless to expect any improvement, for the interrelation that exists among three forces makes it impossible for one to move without the other. It is not within the ability of the CRIMSON to discuss the relative merits of various plans for the solution of this problem, but it can point out that the present state of affairs needs immediate attention. Relief can only come from those sources that are responsible...
...next move in modernizing prisons--and all these experiments have been carried out more or less successfully in Europe--is to apply the indeterminate sentence to all criminals. Under this system a prisoner is placed on parole as soon as he is fitted for the responsibilities of civilized life. And he is not released until a competent examiner is fairly certain his disease is cured. A confirmed criminal will therefore die in prison--a separate prison where he will not contaminate his fellows--and society is saved the trouble of his crime and his recapture...
...suggested remedy at Princeton is the abolition of the B.S. degree. The most important result of such a move, aside from the correction of the present situation, would be the necessary modification of the entrance requirements to the present B.S. level, namely three units of Latin or of a modern foreign language plus two units in another ancient or modern language. The actual effect would be to abolish the requirement in Latin, and doubtless its study would still further decline in college and, more important, in prep schools...
...modest place with a little land," he described The Benches into which he and Mrs. Coolidge will move next month from Massasoit St. Set on a nine-acre wooded tract through which flows a private trout stream, the 16-room house was designed by Manhattan Architects Murphy & Dana in 1914 for Henry Noble MacCracken, then Professor of English at Smith College, now president of Vassar. Morris L. Comey, textile manufacturer, bought it from Dr. MacCracken. His widow sold it to Citizen Coolidge...
...northern rim and New Haven, Conn. (85 mi.). Two hundred million dollars private capital would construct, maintain and police the project. All crossroads would be bridged over. The centre roadways, divided by a metal fence, would have a minimum speed limit of 35 m. p. h. Slower traffic would move on the outer lanes...