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...students stands out not inferior to the English college man. But these men do not feel an attraction which gathers them all within the walls of one or two institutions as in England. The mass, too, foreordained to get degrees without an education, do not leave college without cultural profit, and by this much the American system may be regarded as superior to the English...
...were a young American considering going on the stage I think I should go to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London. It is under the supervision of such men as Pinero, Barrie, Shaw and Forbes-Robertson. It is conducted without profit, all money that happens to be made being turned back into the improvement of the school's facilities...
...Princeton, N. J., President John Grier Hibben mounted to the rostrum of Alexander Hall and mildly berated his undergraduates for a falling-off in scholarship that took place last year. Said he: "What shall it profit a man to make the Triangle Club (dramatic society) and to drop out of Princeton?" It was Princeton's 178th year...
Last week, it was renewed by Sir Charles A. Parsons K.C.B., F.R.S., at a luncheon tendered him by the Engineers' Club of Manhattan. He suggested that the shaft be sunk purely in the interests of Science with no prospect of pecuniary profit. He suggested that it be twelve miles deep, and calculated that it would cost about $100,000,000. The expense of this huge undertaking he would have borne by those all over the world who are willing to contribute to the interest of Science...
Baseball, unfortunately, is still a business. Victory means profit; and, as long as this continues to be the case members of this business, as of any other, who are less troubled than their colleagues by ethical scruples will resort to underhand means...