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...first impression given by the fourteenth Freshman Red Book is one of monumental completeness. The book includes an admirably thorough record of every phase of the life of the class of 1926, all the more thorough because of the speed with which it has been put through the press. It contains accounts of a baseball game and track meet held as late as May 5, and was printed, bound, and ready for distribution less than a month later...
Among the ten entries for the mile, Kennedy of Yonkers, N. Y., will probably press Ray the hardest. The fact that he finished on Ray's heels on Memorial Day and came in second in the N. Y. A. C. handicap mile last Saturday with the time of 4.22 makes him a real possibility to draw...
...siege of the McAlpin by Columbia sophomores, the annual mud-rush at Podunk, and the arrest of a college student for parking too near a fire plug stimulate more frenzied press comment and red-typed leads than the forming of the League of Nations Collegiate Council, the publication of the "Gadfly" and an address by President Eliot together. Naturally, the papers print what their readers want, and the public's interest in college activities is still confined to the lurid incidents which popularly constitute "college life...
...college press could do much, if beside giving college news at it primarily should, it furnished students with intelligent summaries of what is going on; did something to take the "boy" out of their minds, impressing them with the responsibilities of knowledge and of the life ahead of them. The college is maintained at great cost for the intellectual benefit of our land. The period spent there ought not to be regarded as a sporting event with a little of the classics sandwiched in between like a lettuce sandwich. Above all they should get less college "life" in their heads...
...college press can perform a most valuable service by enhancing this view and so giving the student that much less to get over after he leaves the halls of his Alma Mater