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...must show conclusively that no such violations exist, that whatever of sovereignty the United States gives up in taking her share in the responsibilities of the League will be so insignificant in comparison with the ensuing benefits as not to bear discussion. Senator Lodge, however, has an equally difficult task in successfully maintaining that America ought not to forego the Monroe Doctrine and Washington's advice at a moment when the world's problems seem to many more far-reaching than Monroe or Washington ever dreamed they might become...
...significant than usual. The key to the characters and career of the man whom Harvard mourns today was his overflowing. human sympathy. It enabled him to vitalize everything to which he set his hand, to turn the most perfunctory and mechanical bit of drudgery into an interesting and important task. It was the source of his success as a teacher and administrator. It made him a host of friends, young and old, who flocked to him for help and advice on every conceivable subject...
...conclusions, of which the chief, I think, is that Harvard, Yale, and Princeton--traditional leaders in intercollegiate sport--intend to work out among themselves a code of athletics which will satisfy the scrupulous investigation of any scrupulously inclined person who feels impelled at any future time to undertake the task. --New York Evening Post...
Such an idea is not wholly new. Psychology has been working on means for rating the "capacity to learn" of a man for many years. The nianner in which this science has aided the government in judging and placing its men for the great task of war is a noteworthy recommendation of its progress. But as Professor Langfeld points out, the idea is new enough to be unreliable in its present form. However, it has immense possibilities. If a psychological examination were to be made compulsory at the beginning of each year, the facts thus gained together with the University...
...student committee of seven men has seen appointed by the Student Council to undertake the solution of this task, Leading men stand squarely behind the effort, the College is willing to do more than its share. It is now up to the undergraduate body. The CRIMSON and the members of the Student Council Committee need and expect liberal discussion at once. Let every man think this thing out answer as soon s possible. MAYO ADAMS SHATTUCK...