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Roscoe Conklin Bruce '02, of Indianapolis, prepared at Exeter. He was the winner of the Pasteur Medal two years ago and last winter he was on the Harvard team that won the debate with Princeton. In the final trials for the debate this year he won the Coolidge Prize...
...public high schools as we know them today was ultimately brought about during the years from 1826 to the present time. Although this country, through the state of Massachusetts, was very early committed to the maintenance of secondary schools supported partly or wholly by taxes, it took nearly two hundred years before the new conception of the scope and meaning of public secondary education had been evolved. This new conception was a share in the elements of liberal culture and in useful knowledge and appropriate mental training for the duties and refined pleasures of life through an enlarged and more...
...last two hundred years have accordingly given an enlarged significance to the secondary education. During those years the public secondary school has grown into the stature of an independent educational institution with a function of its own, and at the same time it has never ceased to be closely connected with the college. That is, the distinction between the two historical functions of secondary education, preparation for the college and preparation for life, once very marked, is disappearing. Whether it will wholly disappear within a generation or two can only be conjectured...
There are two hundred and fifty children registered at the Harvard Free Library in East Cambridge. In addition there are over one hundred on the waiting list. About twenty-five men are now helping with the daily distribution of books...
...there are enough competitors, two divisions will be formed according to the known speed of the competitors. If there are two divisions the first two hounds of each division will receive prizes; otherwise the first four hounds to finish will receive prizes. The two hares will receive prizes if they finish before the hounds...