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...truth is that the commencement address of 1912 would never have been suitable for 1914, nor would that of 1914 apply at all to the state of affairs in 1918. Today is unlike any previous period, not only in time but in evolution of ideas. Seldom have radical opinions upon any subject received so wide favor nor have they often come simultaneously from such heights of authority...
...writer, in short, states one view of the function of college very clearly, a view which one fears is shared by many another reminiscent Senior. To them it is essentially a four year long draught from the bowl of information. But information is not knowledge, and knowledge can seldom be found in an undergraduate card-index. One might say that the adjustments which a Freshman makes whether in methods of study or more subtle ways of thinking, are a vital part of that carefully supervised development for four years which constitutes college life...
...Jenkins and Todd struck out at least once. The University players are decidedly in a bad batting slump. Townsend held them to five hits a week ago at Princeton, Neubauer gave four Friday, and Duggan's three Saturday make the Crimson average four hits a game--and four hits seldom win a ball game. They have not won any of the last three...
...second international meeting of the P.E.N. Club, International Literary Society, was held with some success last week in Manhattan. There has seldom been so cosmopolitan a literary gathering as that at the Hotel Pennsylvania which marked the opening of the meeting. At the speakers' table were French, German, Swedish, Mexican, Japanese, Dutch, Danish, Russian, Canadian, Rumanian, Spanish men and women of letters. The speeches (it is ordinarily a rule of the Society that there shall be no speeches) ranged from the kindly words of Mrs. Dawson-Scott, who originated the P.E.N. idea in England, and who read a cordial letter...
Strauss (who seldom does what is expected of him and who shuns the obvious) was dissatisfied, unhappy. Said...