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...Buenos Ayres and Shanghai and Bulgaria were received on New Year's day and read from the platform by John R. Mott, the Chairman of the Conference--cable grams from men in the field, greeting the Conference and reiterating the plea for help. The opening speakers outlined the great progress of the Student Volunteer Movement, and showed by word and picture the immensity and vital importance to Americans of the problems of non-Christian countries...
...gradual expansion and improvement of this "speaking" policy is much to be desired as a part of the University's progress...
...leave for a moment the war ravaged cities and fields of Belgium and to come to this land which has been so fortunate as to escape the destruction which the Germans have wrought every where in Europe. Although the work of reconstruction has started, it must of necessity progress slowly and it will be many years before we in Belgium can live as freely and happily as it is possible for you to do in America...
...Progress in the development of a schedule for the squash team is not so definite as no league is in view. Already, however, invitations from the Yale, Princeton, and Harvard Clubs of New York City have been received asking for matches...
...general. The "superior" type is, fortunately, becoming relatively scarce. An examination of the names of men of achievement appearing in "Who's Who" shows that only one uneducated child in one hundred and fifty thousand is able to accomplish anything that entitles him to honorable mention in the progress of his state; that children with common-school education win out four times as often; that a high school diploma gives them eighty-seven times as much chance--while a college education makes them eight hundred times as likely to succeed. But the fact that such incidents as the above...