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...States, undertakes to do at Princeton as a student what Owen Johnson as an author sought to do at Yale through the influence of a popular piece of fiction, which, after all, was not entirely fiction. Nearly all the big schools in the country have to do with the problem which Princeton now is debating. In all of them there are societies and clubs, more or less secret, membership in which is esteemed an honor to be prized, and the influence of which in many instances is highly beneficial. But the trouble is that these clubs tend to take...
...relation between high marks in college and success in later life remains an interesting, and for lack of trustworthy evidence, a puzzling problem. It is complicated by the fact that such success is so various that it is impossible to lay down a universal standard by which men's relative attainments can be measured. Wealth, eminence in public affairs, social usefulness and historical fame are all legitimate objects of human endeavor, and none can be set above the rest or even expressed in terms of any other...
...Roger I. Lee '02, Professor of Hygiene, describes in the current Alumni Bulletin the various ways in which the University is working upon the problem of student health. The precautions taken against infantile paralysis were such that although the University started on time last fall, there was but one case of the disease. This particular student had been frequently away from Cambridge and the source of infection was unknown...
...beginning of the college year the particular health problem that was uppermost in the thoughts of everyone was the prevalence of infantile paralysis. After careful consideration and consultation with various experts, not only of the University but also of the state and the country, the University was opened on schedule...
...experience with the continued supervision and advice of the group of boys who furnish some problem at the time of their examination has been eminently satisfactory. Many of these students could not have been reached in any other way than by a physical examination. In general the Freshmen have represented in each year splendid types of promising young manhood...