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Officials of the University said yesterday that the attitude of the University toward the question of permitting negroes to room in the Freshman Dormitories, a question which has recently excited considerable controversy in the public press, was that summarized by President Lowell's two letters to Mr. R. C. Bruce...
...first eight and their contemporaries have continued writing. Several have allied themselves to the young experimental magazines of verse that have become numerous lately: some, like Mr. Ausiander, are making themselves known in the older periodicals. Mr. Robert Hillyer, whose fifth volume of poems is now on the press has won a high name-in the critical world, and as substantial recognition as any among the younger American poets." He is already above and far beyond the University group, yet still close enough to his undergraduate days to be claimed by the present college generation. His classmate, Mr. Dos Passos...
Tonight, for the first time in years, Princeton comes to Boston with to hockey team which is expected to "press the Harvard team to the limit" if not to defeat it. Preliminary reports hall the Princeton captain as a second "Hobey" Baker and have the greatest praise for the other Princetonians and the work of Coach Gaw, recently in charge of Dartmouth hockey...
Tugurt-to-Timbuctoo may never become as famous as Berlin-to-Bagdad, or even Cape-to-Cairo, but it has justified itself in the eyes of the press, if only because it has provided the headline: "Caterpillars Conquer Camel Caravan...
...that prophecy is not a cheerful one. Samuel Butler's "Book of the Machines", which argues the menace of matter over mind, is the most engrossing chapter in "Erewhon" And a writer of even more recent date, a scientist of repute, has lately filled columns of the public press with his concern over man's future amidst the complicated machinery, his own creations, to which he has gradually become a slave...