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...March 19 he travelled slowly north through Alabama and Georgia, to Columbia, where the University of South Carolina is situated. Guilford College, Trinity College, at Dunham, N. C., and the University of North Carolina were all visited by the President on his way to Richmond, Va. After a short stay there President Eliot left for Washington...
During his stay in Washington President Taft, at a private interview, offered him the ambassadorship to the Court of St. James. This offer President Eliot declined to accept on account of his unwillingness to undertake new and important responsibilities. Another honor was conferred on President Eliot by the Japanese ambassador; Mr. Takahira, who presented him, in behalf of the Emperor of Japan, with the first class order of the Rising...
...scholarship of athletes, and it works injustice on men of good standing at the College office, who should be allowed to take part in athletics to their hearts' content. The graduate school rule is unfair as preventing diligent students from playing on the University teams and forcing men to stay in College for athletic purposes who would prefer to get some business training in their fourth year...
...allowed to play on the University teams if he is registered in one of the graduate departments. The other alternative open to the undergraduate is to go through in three years. This is really no very difficult task and it is often done by men who are unable to stay four years for financial reasons or who prefer to get some business training in their fourth year. A man who goes into business immediately loses all the pleasures of the Senior year, usually the most enjoyable of the four, and one who stays in one of the graduate schools finds...
...departments in their fourth year at Cambridge, but if they do so they are debarred from playing on the University teams. In other College activities they are considered Seniors, while as regards athletics they are treated as graduates. On the other hand, if the pressure is strong enough, they stay for another year in the College to retain their eligibility. Of course, it can be said that this fourth year in College is as advantageous from an educational stand-point as the other three, but the fact remains that most men who remain for this reason are inclined to take...