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...university in control of the teaching and the small college (within the university) doing much for youth on the cultural and social sides. Like Princeton, following the lead set by Woodrow Wilson, Harvard that of A. Lawrence Lowell, and Amherst that of Alexander Meiklejohn, Yale is beginning to react favorably on the popular demand that in some way culture, scholarship and intellectuality be restored to a dominant place in the American national academic ideal, from which it has been ousted by athletics, fraternity excesses and premature specialization in order to get a living promptly after graduation...
Professor Bergson said that philosophy was born of the imperative need of man to react against the impression of universal death. It is a defensive reaction of the psychological organism which finds no satisfaction in considering events merely as a succession of sentiments, sensations, and ideas. Its problem is to determine in what the longed-for stability consists...
...Spanish sonnet, another of an address by Anatole France to French students. This address is a plea for vision--"Agitate and dream; and above all, oh, above all do not be too rational"; a plea for tolerance--"Be not fanatic, even with the fanaticism of acquired truth, which may react against grander truths, as yet half discovered"; a plea for universal peace--"The Rome of the Caesars attempted it, when she was queen of the universe. May your generation accomplish it!" It is not likely that there is a man in Harvard who by learning that address by heart would...
...previous years men have been dropped from the Freshman crew squad before the ice disappeared from the Charles. But by keeping the squad intact it is planned to teaching rowing to every one of the 94 members. This is a development of the plan to popularize rowing and will react on the dormitory, club and upperclass crews of next year, tending to raise the general standard of rowing in the University...
...University except Freshmen and Sophomores. It will afford to Law School men, and men in other graduate departments of the University -- and most ex-University debaters come under one or the other of these descriptions--an opportunity for regular debating practice, and the presence of such men will react to stimulate, undergraduate debaters to greater excellence. The Freshman and Sophomore clubs, tested by time and found satisfactory, are retained. The administrative work of the University Debating Club will be assumed by the new University Debating Committee...