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...exact sciences differ so much from actual work in the outside world that training in the former seems to make a man useless for the latter, for exact science calls for consideration of every detail, while in life we have as a rule no further calculations than rough approximations of probabilities. This fact tends to make the man trained in science hesitate when any question comes up, weighing so long the advantages and disadvantages of any plan of action that he cannot bring himself to act in any definite way. What then are the advantages of a scientific training, what...
...Science which for two decades has perhaps reared more academic buildings than existed before; which is coming to underlie all the arts of peace and war, and to train the experts who in more and more fields now rule the world, is now again giving to universities greatly enlarged functions, new problems, and almost a new meaning to the very word 'university.' That this new situation will be duly appreciated by a fair proportion of the one thousand millionaires in our land, and by legislators as well as by those who have set their hearts and minds upon the progress...
...decided to reduce the number of players to about twenty men, exclusive of the batteries. This reduction of candidates will go into effect Monday and will be beneficial in that it will enable the most promising men to profit by more individual coaching. The impossiblity of devising a rule, which will be sufficiently comprehensive to decide concerning the eligibility of all candidates for the athletic teams, is shown by the fact that the rules, adopted at the beginning of the year, fail to determine whether several of the candidates are eligible to play on the nine. The athletic committee...
...Heidelberg University there is a rule on record which was made in 1430, forbidding the practice by the older students of shaving the heads of new students and filling their ears with...
...directors of the club in a recent meeting made a very important amendment to the constitution to go into effect at once. According to this new rule the membership of those who get tickets this spring will be extended to the close of the rowing season next autumn. The term of membership before was during the college year, so that tickets issued in the spring were only good until Commencement. Hereafter the men who do not join till spring will get as much rowing for their five dollars as those who join in the autumn. The new rule will also...