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...Lehigh University to partition the student bodies of the American universities into the two divisions of kindergartens and colleges, seems to be an efficient means of separating the fiddling grasshoppers from the industrious ants. The Lehigh Dean would give the gentlemen with the social and activity bent a large playground in the country where they get plenty of fresh air and be able to satisfy their pressing desires to attain extra-curricular prominence. The remaining portion of the collegiate population, intent upon scholastic honors, and which, according to Dean McConn, amounts to one half of one percent of those...
Rich men first, then poor men in thankful thousands, flocked to the southeastern U. S. and made it a sanitorium, then a playground. Financial vicissitudes naturally resulted from the influx of people ready to spend money freely for on those dearest objects of life-health and fun. Violent hurricanes came, too, to interrupt the development of a winter paradise. But now the crazy land-booms have subsided. The damage of the latest hurricanes is repaired and future damage provided against more carefully. The visits this year of the country's two leading figures, the outgoing Coolidge and the incoming...
...Among these are Balboa Park, San Diego, the world's largest aviary; the San Diego Community Welfare Building; the Scripps Memorial Hospital; the Scripps Biological Institute at Miramar; the La Jolla playground...
...have intervened since Nov. 11, 1918. Critics & others, sated with many a propagandrama for or against hostilities, frequently have wished for a pact to outlaw war as an instrument of national amusement policy. But let no critic ban war or dressmaking or boxing or any other subject as a playground if playsmiths can use war, dressmaking or boxing to a worthy end, as in this piece...
Stars of former Harvard baseball nines will clash with the best colored team in the Greater Boston district this evening at 6.15 o'clock when the Harvard All-Star's meet the Boston Tigers on the William E. Carter Playground, near the Boston Arena...