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...served for 24 years as an Overseer of the American University.) "In Oxford, man walks, talks and has his being in an atmosphere of scholasticism. The old classical traditions are there still preserved. Do I expect a revival of those traditions in our American colleges? There is not the remotest probability of it. For 50 years the tendency in the United States has been steadily the other...
...absurd, ridiculous. I challenge any advocate of these schemes to name one nation with the remotest intention of attacking us. As the risks of war decrease, we are asked to pay higher and yet higher rates of insurance. In the fiscal year 1910-11 we paid for the support of our army and navy over 43.3 percent, of our total expenditures, and 24.1 per cent, more for pensions, the burden of past wars--a total of over 440 million dollars--enough to build two hundred Widener libraries. The only possible way to stop this mad race of nations apparently trying...
...that the Student Council has handed down its decision in favor of tights at the Senior Picnic, the committee announce the completion of the remotest minutiae of business-like preparation. Take out your date-books Seniors, your kodaks Freshmen...
...world, is probably her greatest asset in a recent editorial the Bulletin pointed out our many national features--the faithful work of the Alumni Association in promoting the cause of the University throughout the land; "our intimate relations with the German and French universities, our scientific expeditions" to the remotest corners of the earth, and the wide territory from which our students are steadily drawn...
...most interesting, for throughout the ages it has retained its own characteristics. One is at once impressed with the fact that the country has retained its primitive condition, and that man has scarcely made his impress upon it. Even where impress is visible it carries us back to the remotest ages. There are the incomparable monuments of Carnuc and Cocuariaker, and the mediaeval chapels and churches, together with the impressive castles of feudal times...