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...college units, and freedom from minor restrictions common in early American institutions--are fruits of such contact. Although many of the mental sprigs brought home from abroad would certainly wreak havoc if grafted on the American educational tree, a little instinct for selection can make the foreign contacts all profit and no loss...
...Faunce's suggestions are thoughtful and pertinent, and they doubtless would provide a satisfactory test of the candidate's capacity to profit by a college education if they were conscientiously answered. But the difficulty would seem to be that most prospective collegians are likely to consider that the matter of their personal fitness is not worth much thought, inasmuch as the question is neither pressing nor easy to solve. College is usually regarded as a matter of course,--to be taken or discarded on its objective merits. It is a rare thing when unsuitability and failure are judged in advance...
...Faunce's test could ever be satisfactorily applied it would certainly go a long way toward solving a problem, but it would seem, at first sight, to be more useful as a recapitulatory for a college graduate than as an index for an entrant. Where the latter could profit by it, only the former can, well apply...
Prices. The Government Liquor Commission will establish prices. Forecast: Scotch $7 Canadian whiskey $5; beer $2. Beer will be sold at cost; wines and whiskeys at a profit...
...strange tale--this story of a Princetonian-CRIMSON picnic on the banks of the Charles celebrated by a special issue of the Harvard paper burlesquing the break between the two Universities. Older and more experienced heads in positions of influence in these worthy institutions might well profit by the example set by their young colleagues. --Yale Daily News...