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Some time ago the "Chicago Trlbune" felt in duty bound to expose the irresponsible juvenility of American colleges. In its editorial columns it called attention to the unpleasant details of "the Mount case" at Northwestern University, and the comment resulting from it, throughout the world. For the French press had secured a version of the incident, and the Paris "Matin" wrote: "the tragedy sheds a great light upon the strange customs of American university life...
...this editorial opinion is often more widely-spread than might appear on the surface. When a group of Yale men took part in a "parade", with disastrous effects on public as well as university property, the press again featured the story. The New Haven case has borne much resemblance to the more sinister incident at North western. And its seriousness has been so great that certain members of the Student Council have issued a statement, which included, among other things, the following sentence: "The tendency during the last few years to disregard the restrictions of ordinary courtesy, the common ownership...
...order, not to give a proper impression to the outside world. Athletic eligibility has little to do with a general riot, and threats are usually a sign of weakness. In order to "see ourselves as others see us" we have to look through the highly-colored glasses of the press: and so long as the methods of discipline used by university authorities are those which a school teacher might employ, there is every encouragement to the press to consider most American colleges as "juvenile", and their inhabitants as "fantastic, megaphonic, and acrobatic...
...usual, by the concerted efforts of medical research. A British Empire campaign against cancer was organ-ized last week by the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, to which Lord Athol-stan has given an additional $100,000. It has the backing of the Lancet, and all the most influential press of England, both medical and lay. The American Society for the Control of Cancer is doing admirable propaganda work. The Crocker Cancer Re-search Fund of Columbia University, under Dr. Francis Carter Wood, the cancer research conducted by Harvard, Cornell and New York University Medical Schools, all show promising results...
...United States. Established 1793" -The Globe and Commercial Advertiser (New York)-has been consolidated out of existence. Frank A. Munsey did it As anticipated when Mr. Munsey bought The Globe (TIME, June 4), he merged it with The Sun (New York) to give the latter paper Associated Press service which it lacked...