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...Yellow Springs, Ohio, there are on foot preparations for an experiment that will prove of great interest to all educators -- namely the transformation of the little-known college of Antioch into a sort of super trade-school or college of practical business. Mr. Arthur IC. Morgan, who has devised the scheme, intends to transport a number of manufacturing concerns shops and business houses to the college, making them part of the regular equipment. The entire conduct of the place is to be in the hands of the students, who will work in shifts and will divide their time between these...
...name of common sense, remove some of the hurdles and hazards which turn prospective entrants in ever-increasing numbers to the welcoming gates of other abodes of learning? I am not an advocate of the certificate method of admission; on the other hand, I am no believer in the super-boy and boys, who, taking them by and large, work harder in their years at preparatory school than they ever do afterwards in college, are inevitably influenced by the contrasting difficulties of admission to the various universities whose fame is greatest throughout the land. Certainly the Harvard requirements...
...stags participating in the dancing. The music will commence at 9.30 o'clock and during the first half-hour the patronesses will receive; the first dance will begin promptly at 10 o'clock and from then on at regular fifteen minute periods the twenty dances will be played off. Super will be served in the intermission between the tenth and eleventh dances. The music will be furnished by Leo Reisman's Brunswick Orchestra and the Jefferson-Johnson Orchestra, both of Boston. Any couples arriving late must forgo the card dances they miss, and cutting-in will not be allowed before...
Still another was added to the long list of annual "reviews of revues" last Monday night, when "Vogues and Vanities" appeared at the Majestic Theatre. Far from following in the generally tedious wake of those super-vaudevillian productions, however, this new musical hodgepodge proves to be a diverting first cousin of the "Follies," and aided by a substantial number of star comedians, succeeds in keeping the audience in an alternating state of genuine laughter and applause...
...into your head that Princeton defeated Yale today because the Blue team was weak. I have been watching Yale teams for 32 years, and the 1920 Eli eleven is one of the strongest that I have ever seen Princeton piled up 20 points against its opponents because it played super-football." --Daily Princetonian...