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...their eyes glued on the entrance requirements of the colleges. Progressive Educators saw long ago that if they wanted to do much tinkering in the secondary schools they must first make a deal with the colleges about special admissions. Three years ago they worked out a plan. They would select a few first-rate schools which were already progressive or wanted to be. Then they would persuade the colleges to waive, for five years, their usual requirements for graduates of those schools...
...select any single individual for special honors is impossible. Five or six members of the cast, the chorus, the composers, the directors and last but not least, the author have all contributed to the satisfying moments. Unfortunately, we must begin somewhere. William Hunt, as Dean Bounce, made University Hall consistently more cheerful than it is reported to be under its present staff, though possibly, the Pudding Dean cannot manage a bender with quite the incumbent grace. Gaspar Bacon, as Yankee Joe, brought forth great admiration for his clever dancing in the radium paint number. Mrs. Murphy or Lawrence Nichols dominated...
These men take office immediately and in a meeting Thursday will select their own officers...
...Washington, D. C., Thomas Jonathan Jackson Christian Jr., 19, opened an envelope from the War Department and read those words of Adjutant General James F. McKinley. Great was the pride of handsome, serious-minded Cadet-select Thomas Jonathan Jackson Christian Jr., son of a West Pointer (1911) now attached to the War College, and only living great-grandson of one of the Military Academy's most famed graduates, Thomas Jonathan ("Stonewall") Jackson, Lieut.-General, Confederate States Army...
...according to the democratic principles which the university intends to foster. In the first place, exactly three-fourths of the candidates were nominated by a committee or council composed solely of upperclassmen: one sophomore, two juniors, and one senior. We do not in any way, however, object to the selections made by the members of that committee. We merely object to having upper classmen select our candidates. We feel that the candidates should be nominated by the Freshmen--every candidate, not merely one fourth of them. There are several ways in which this could be done: the petition method might...