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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that they are all co-workers in the maintenance of the highest standards of education and of character, the present undergraduates will realize more and more deeply as the year pass by. Theories of education differ, but the ideals remain unchanged. The preservation of the best things of the past, liberalized by a broad foresight into the future, and their application to the problems of the present, is by no means the least function of the American university and university men. In this work all college are united. The cause of one is the cause...
During the past six months six new stars or "novae" have been discovered at the Harvard College Observatory. These interesting objects have been found by comparing photographic plates taken at the Observatory recently with other plates of the same region of the sky taken at earlier dates. In this way the appearance of any new object or the sudden brightening of a previously faint star is rendered conspicuous. The remarkable results that have already been obtained since Professor Bailey instituted the systematic search of the Harvard plates of the Milky Way region is another instance of the valuable policy...
...plant another, it starts with a new and untried seed, for it has destroyed the seed of the old trees. As in Russia, the tree dies, and the prospects of impoverishment are met with the good fortune of having found some remnant of the stock of seed of the past. Lenine has accepted the necessity of granting the two concessions of private peasant ownership of land and a fir rate of interest from the Peasants' Banks...
...took the lead and set the pace for W. H. Goodwin '20 until the last lap, when Goodwin pushed him hard. A. W. Douglas '21 started off with a yard handicap, but fumbled the baton and lost three yards to W. D. Prizer. On the last lap Douglas spurted past the Yale runner, and gave J. A. McCarthy '22 a two-yard lead...
When "education" is mentioned, the average undergraduate thinks of a number of unhappy incidents of his past life and tries to change the subject. Possibly, at the beginning of a half-year, he notices that the Elective Pamphlet contains courses under a Department of Education; but when he observes that one meets at nine and another at four-thirty, and that "reports and theses" are required, he loses interest. He is too busy dodging an education for himself to worry about providing one for somebody else...