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...main subject for general discussion will be "Faculty Control of Athletics." President J. R. Angell of Yale will make the principal speech on this topic. The advisability of sponsoring the visit to this country of a delegation of European college men will be considered. The object of the visit is to make a study of American college athletics. The case of the eligibility of C. W. Paddock, world's champion sprinter, will also be investigated. Paddock has been declared by the Amateur Athletic Association to be ineligible to represent the United States in the Paris Olympic Games...
...still going on. Subject to the right to retake in time of war, I recommend that this property with a location for auxiliary steam plant and rights of way be sold. . . . The agriculture of the nation needs a greater supply and lower cost of fertilizer. ... If this main object be accomplished, the amount of money received for the property is not a primary or major consideration. . . . I, therefore, recommend that the Congress appoint a small joint committee to consider offers, conduct negotiations and report definite recommendations...
...village thought half-demented -Scevola had saved her body from the massacre that exterminated her Royalist parents, but the memory of the shrieks and the blood of that massacre still walked like a ghost through her mind. Her aunt, the upright, deliberate, tireless Catherine, asserted her a doomed object of God's particular wrath, a fatal woman, not for any man's arms...
...plot against America has been detected. Henry Cashman, member of the Wisconsin University Board of Regents and the State Legislature, declared to the Regents last week that a grave peril is being courted by any State which sends Rhodes scholars to Oxford. "The object of Rhodes scholarships is to extend British rule and ultimately to recover the United States. This scheme makes traitors of some of America's finest young men!" No action was taken by the Board. But some patriot somewhere, who does not know how incurably American the Rhodes scholars are considered at Oxford...
...fact of undergraduate life at Harvard which is also, probably, a fact in many other colleges. The men from private schools control most of the undergraduate activities. The men from the public schools are at the head only in study and scholarship, the main purpose, aside from the ecclesastical object of the more ancient foundations which our wise and pious ancestors and their descendants established and endowed...