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With the institution of the Eliot House Boat Club, the House Plan offers further proof of its value to intra-mural athletics. This new organization, embracing both University and House row-ors, has secured the services of an amateur coach, who is to have complete control over the training of Eliot House crews. Administrative details on house rowing will be managed by the organization...
...black N. G. on American colleges. With a trenchant promise that American colleges are mere scientific factories and with a world almanac reference to the effect that a million student attend them, he sweeps on with a flippant grandeur to evolve a series of serious charges. Offering as his proof a penchant for mossy Oxonian intellectuality and an unpalatable homily on football over-emphasis, he states dogmatically that "the American undergraduate has neither time nor energy for intellectual relations," that "the companionship of the opposite sex, synthetic gin, and cinema satisfy his simple needs." Leading up to is final revelation...
Although much of what the author charges is unfortunately true, it has all been stated much more briefly and co-gently than in the present article. For Mr. Boyd-Carpenter, like many another of his countrymen, has seen fit to dispense with substantial proof or to recognize any merit whatsoever in his victim. Enough for him to garner particular weaknesses apparent in a number of American colleges, to amalgamate them as if characteristic of the whole, and to label the composite, "American College" Attacked with a critical eye for definite proof and clear understanding of conditions, the article collapses about...
...Japanese correspondents cabled to Tokyo from Washington that President Hoover and Secretary Stimson had "split" on the Sino-Japanese issue, the President wanting to do nothing and the Secretary of State wanting to write a stern note to Japan. Tokyo, hearing this, accepted the Stimson-to-Borah letter as "proof" that Mr. Hoover had not let Mr. Stimson write to Japan...
...living in the world of today," expounded W. P. Montague, visiting professor of Philosophy from Columbia University, in an interview last night. "I do not say that it has no value; I merely say that when we attempt to evaluate education on practical grounds we are basing our proof for this belief on fallacious arguments. In the case of some scientific or trade schools there is, of course, proof that training and learning are invaluable, but in the general college course the student learns very little which will be more than remotely helpful to him in his later life...