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...philosophers, teachers as well as propagandists, to teach people the truth and to "tell them the names of things". "If these men do not come from the colleges, they may possibly rise from the laboring classes, but the colleges should furnish them. If they do not the world will roll on to an awaiting destruction...
...CRIMSON wishes to take this opportunity to express its appreciation for the action which the Governing Boards of the University have taken in the matter of posthumous degrees for honorable service in the war. The University has shown admirable tact in adding to her roll of graduates these twenty-eight men who did not complete their college courses. Harvard is honored in numbering them among her sons. They have fought for her ideals and gladly given up their lives. This reward, slight though it is, will carry their memory down to future generations of Harvard...
...have granted 150 degrees in the annual midyear award. Of these, 28 are posthumous degrees, granted to men who never completed their college requirements but lost their lives in the war. By awarding degrees to these men, the University has brought it about that every man on the University roll of honor also has a place on the roster of graduates...
...distinction of having the largest student body in the history of the higher education. The traditions persist of the great number of students at the mediaeval universities, the throngs at Bologna, Salamanca and the University of Paris. But Salamanca at its most flourishing period, around 1600., had a student roll of 5,000. And here is an American university of a size to compare with the population of thriving cities and with a faculty larger than the student population of many important colleges...
...sage of the university made a startling discovery. The classes were deserted! From every side came the complaints of parents: "Behold, we have sent our children to be instructed; wherefore then, do they roll rocks?" And indeed this was true; no longer did anyone come there to gain training of the mind. They came only for the great sport of Rolo. Rolo was the raison d'etre of the university, the paramount appeal to the people of the Inca realm. The furore which this revelation caused must have been tremendous, says Senor Alvarotez. The cry was taken...