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...been felt in this institution," Professor Palmer said in part. "A firm believer in the old Greek saying, 'Man is the measure of all things', he concentrated his attention on the study of human beings, only considering the physical world as a means, not an end in his studies. Seldom indeed could you go to Mr. Norton with a question, without finding that he had an answer to it, for he was a man whose work was studying---elaborate, sever, day by day drill...
...method of signing for electives at registration time vexes all of us. We dash into a class because "the 'prof' is a friend," or because "it fits our program" or because it "is a snap course." Like the mail order catalogue, the time schedule seldom embellishes a course with details as to its real value. Frequently an ambiguous title deceives us and we are in a course that is entirely inappropriate. As in commercial buying the red tape is too entangling and "shopping" is the only recourse. University of Washington Daily
...times there does appear an article tinged with anti-Yale prejudice. They are often amusing from certain standpoints. People who laugh, however, seldom condemn. The stories that have appeared criticizing our Campus are not doing damage, because they are not convincing. Nobody takes them seriously. A joke on ourselves is to be laughed at--when it is a good joke. But when invention tires, and the articles become fiat repetitions we do yawn a little and wonder why the editors allow such obvious space-fillers to clutter up their columns.--The Yale News
Nearly every Princeton man has occasion to buy and sell furniture, not always upon the most satisfactory terms. Men buying are often forced to pay exorbitant prices; graduating men seldom receive full value for the furniture which they sell...
...four-mile race is a far safer thing to row for the man's general health and physical fitness than the distance of one mile and five-sixteenths. Heart trouble is generally traced to the shorter races and seldom to the longer races. Had I my way I would have no races under four miles for inter-university contests, as that is the only distance to bring out a true test of oarsmanship...