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...century ago, it was the custom for a large number of baseball nines, informally organized, to play an elimination series for the Leiter Cup. We hope this Leiter Cup Series is still a popular fixture, for we can think of no other in undergraduate sport, with so much to recommend it. In the first place, it coaxed into fancy baseball suits and out onto the diamonds more than 200 men who would never have tried for 'varsity or class nines. Secondly, it didn't confuse it summons to play with appeals to college or class loyalty or duty to Alma...
...recommend to Dr. Angell or Yale, and other college executives on the point of revolt, football fixtures similar to the Leiter Cup Series as a substitute for intercollegiate football. These would automatically restore football from its present degradation as a science to its former glory as a game. They would rob it of commercialism and heroics and give it informality, gayety and humor. They would transform it from the life work of a few to the play of the many. Minced Chickens would be an appropriate name for almost any football team Or how about Dropped Eggs? --Judge, October...
...Winnetka, Ill., public library, seeing what a business it is for parents and teachers to find the right reading for the young idea, enlisted teachers in 35 cities to collect ballots from 36,700 school children and enable her to make out a graded list of 700 books to recommend her contribution to Children's Book Week (Nov. 8-14). Telling the Illinois Library Association about it last week in Rockford, Miss Vogel told other things she had learned: An Omaha boy, aged 13, after reading and liking Tom Sawyer, had declared: "But yet I think...
...purpose of this committee is to conduct an investigation of the general theory of education at Harvard, and to recommend changes in the theory and practice of education which should be put into practice in the University. It is understood that this investigation will include such subjects as the adjustment of the tutorial system to the old course system, and the equalization of the requirements for a degree in the various departments of the University, as well as a number of other problems now prominent in education here...
...public libraries. French physicians, Drs. Touchais and Moureau, have found germs of tuberculosis on the pages of books subjected to experiment after four or five months. Nevertheless, extensive studies made in this country cause physicians to believe that the chance of infection from such material is slight. Modern hygienists recommend that books used by persons suffering with severe infectious diseases be burned if of little value, and be disinfected by thorough airing and sunning and possible subjection to formaldehyde vapors if of greater value...