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...thing. Not about Dartmouth, but about Yale. And Professor C. W. Mendell, Professor of Latin and Chairman of the Athletic Board of Control, leads off in The Yale Daily News with a succinct and persuasive statement. The object of a college education is culture. "Culture is not the finished product, much less the meretricious trappings of an inferior article serving to deceive the observer. Culture is fertilization. . . . True education must make fertile the intellectual and moral ground so that it can bear fruit in the proper season. To be more concrete, the real education which a college can give...
...Universities, like cathedrals, are a product of the Middle Ages," Professor Haskins stated in the opening remarks of his lecture. "Nothing of that type now thriving ever existed in Rome or Greece." He then contrasted the mediaeval and modern universities by showing that such attractions as athletics, journalism, dramatics, public speaking, and other collegiate activities were quite unknown; that the faculty tended toward thorough instruction in religion regardless of the field of concentration; and that education was limited to a very few courses on account of the then recent exit of learning from the monasteries. He called attention...
...Story. By the death in unexpected poverty of her father, Leda Perrin was left at the mercy of her cousins, the Crumbs, of the town of Prospect. The Crumbs are "good folk who are wicked." They need no description. There are Crumbs everywhere-the intolerable product of the standardization of humanity. They think the same thoughts, eat the same food, do the same things and do them always in groups. A Crumb, finding himself alone in anything would very possibly go mad. They are gross, suffocating vulgarians. Among them are Orrin, the Gideonite salesman, bristling with esprit de corps; Tweet...
SOUTH DAKOTA: The State is building a $2,000,000 cement plant. Its product will be sold to citizens at low prices in an attempt to break the "National Cement Trust...
That the new product intends to join this famous crew seems likely; whether it will win fame with them, or pass unnoticed, depends on its own merits. At any rate, the authors are ambitious; not content to be called "Another Eight", or "A Second Eight More", or "A Third Eight", they brazenly proclaim themselves the "Eight Most Harvard Poets"--no less. Who these superlative artists are, remains to be revealed...