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Upwards of six thousand university students returning to Cambridge for the opening of another year were accorded a strange greeting Sunday night, when an Irish priest, fresh from confinement in an English jail, and speaking from a platform hallowed by the footsteps of James Otis and Samuel Adams, hurled anathemas upon all Harvard as "stinking rotten with British propaganda." If reliance may be placed upon the reports c. Three reputable morning papers, there is little in the way of vituperation approaching blasphemy, that this Australian visitor did not head upon such newspapers, schools, churches and citizens of the United States...
Every year at just about this time a few thousand harassed editors, who write for an equal number of college papers, develop bad headaches with attendant grouches. The reason is this: The annual Freshman "Ed." Must be written. If editors were to have their own way, then would abolish Freshmen altogether and then no longer would the ghastly spectre of the Freshman "Ed." Stare them in the face. But the editors are unable to effect this sweeing reform, every year the powers that be inflict a few hundrel strange new beings upon us. These add people call themselves freshmen...
...Arena, with a capacity for five thousand spectators and a playing surface larger than the Charlesbank rink, is welcomed as the remedy for these conditions. Not only will the new building be valuable to the University hockey team, but it will be adaptable to other uses as well. The pipes containing the freezing mixture are to be laid just under the surface of a composition concrete floor, so that by conducting steam through them, in a short space of time the floor may be prepared for an indoor track meet. It may be used also for other events, the Yale...
Starting with an endowment of $2,000,000, the Department of Education is established on a firm basis. Five hundred thousand dollars of this money was contributed by the General Education Board, which has its headquarters in New York, and similar sum was set aside by the University from the funds which were being used for advancement of the Division of Education. The amount of $200,000 was collected by the overseers' committee for the department, and the balance of the sum was secured through private subscription...
...primary laws, which provide a vast machinery that must be lubricated by much money. Nobody can get through its intricacies and achieve a nomination unless he expends much of his own money or somebody else's money. And now it has been shown that Governor Lowden spent several hundred thousand dollars of his own money, and General Wood and Senator Johnson spent several hundred thousand dollars of other people's money, a great hue and cry is raised...