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...CRIMSON has arranged to receive reports of the Yale hockey game in New Haven this evening by direct wire. Accordingly the progress of the game, will be recorded on a bulletin at Leavitt & Pierce's. Each goal, whom scored by, and the time, will be posted as fast as the scores are made...
...substantial than they indicate. There is such a thing as an increase of quality as well as of quantity, and those universities which face a limitation of their physical expansion are forced to give their efforts to that. But both kinds of increase are encouraging signs of our national progress, and in them all true friends of education rejoice...
...Progress on the new buildings for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has proceeded at a fast rate, and a great deal has been done since the first pouring of concrete, which took place last April. In all of the buildings but the library, all the structural concrete has been poured, and the construction work is now up to the roof. This structural concrete is the skeleton of the buildings. It is poured in a semi-liquid state into wooden forms, and is reinforced by steel rods. The foundation walls, piers, interior columns and floors are all made of this material...
...young man is to make any real progress," a distinguished executive recently remarked, "he must either have a boss who is a brute, or be the slave to an idea which bosses him like a brute." Thus in a few words is stated the be-all and end-all of the disciplinarian's creed. It was something of this dogma which stood behind Dean Randall's remarkably outspoken address made recently to the alumni of Brown University. "Where Colleges Fail to Educate" was the subject which he chose, and it gave him a dozen opportunities to point the failures...
...often, superior to the discipline of the college, by studying their technic, and applying it to their own methods, our faculties could more easily oust athletics from their present absurd position of primary importance. Admit the disciplinarian's point of view, and you admit that young men can only progress under very hard taskmasters or as slaves on the athletic field to a physical, in the classroom to a mental, ideal. This ideal our colleges must make clear and tempting to the minds of their students. And now we come to the weakness of disciplinarians--that it is not they...