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...teams would seem to be nearly equal in strength. The centers are the mainstay of the Yale forward line, playing a very aggressive game, being especially brilliant in short passing. Carson and Ingalls are the most spectacular individual players on the Yale team, and their ability will meet its test in the effort to slip through the Crimson defense...
Serbia's history was likewise one to test the Imagination of students. Professor Coolidge piled incident upon incident to illustrate the unsettled times, featured by the Turks entering Europe, the Serbs passing under Turkish rule, Serbian immigration into Hungary and the Serbian wars of independence prior to 1876. Bosnia and Herzegovina were alluded to as "the meting ground between Serbs and Croats," and the settlements of the Congress of Berlin, with Austrian occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina causing intense disappointment of the Serbs. Nevertheless, there was the Austrian alliance and its predominance in Serbia till the accession of Peter Kaigevyevich...
...here by acting as a sort of shock-absorber, protecting at the same time the property rights of France and the personal rights of the inhabitants, it will serve another interest no less important than peace, namely, the cause of justice. If the League is not ready for this test, it is certainly not ready to become a super-state. The super-state can wait, but justice is a matter of today. The League of Nations in the Valley of the Saar is the symbol of a new order...
...work in which the undergraduate has specialized is such good sense that one wonders why it has not been done long ago. Such an examination would eliminate much criticism of the present examination system with its "cramming," and its emphasis on details so soon forgot. It would be a test of knowledge, of an ability to assimilate the fundamental principles of a science or study. It would be a test of the student's ability to coordinate the information he obtains. In short, it would be a test of education...
...University Faculty, one of whose most justly and widely distinguished members he was, but to the country at large. Always vigorous in behalf of practical preparedness against war, Professor Johnston was unusually fortunate in the high degree of service which he was qualified to render when the test came. Not content with serving indirectly through those be had trained for military service both in the War College and Harvard, he felt impelled to add his own active services to their, in spite of long continued poor health and a weak heart...