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...then of the utmost concern that university graduates see clearly amid the fog and think straight amidst the babel of confusing voices. It sometimes seems as if no public address could attract attention today unless it constitutes a lurid arraignment of present conditions, or else a wanton attack upon some person or group of individuals. In the field of politics one who declaims of how things should be done and who promises the impossible gains a ready audience, while one who soberly recites a record of actual accomplishment is quickly brushed aside. Many men who pick up their morning papers...
Although the Freshman track team is one of the strongest in recent years, it will face this afternoon at New Haven an Eli yearling team which has enormous strength in every event, and which should, on a basis of past records, push the Crimson to the very utmost. While comparative scores are perhaps more significant in track than in any other sport, it frequently happens that the outcome of a meet cannot be accurately judged by this means. Such is the case today. The Freshmen have encountered only Andover, which defeated them by a score...
Besides the seven hundred institutions which are already taking an active interest in the work, the Friends of Belgium, a society specially interested is the furtherance of the Louvain Library idea, are now circularizing two thousand other schools of this country. Enthusiastic pledges of the utmost cooperation have been received from such institutions as Columbia, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania, University of Illinois, Hunter College, Trinity College, Bryn Mawr, Catholic University of Washington, Tufts, Boston College, Boston University, McCormick Theological Seminary of Chicago, McKendree College of Lebanon, Illinois, and the Negro Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolina...
There is one thing, however, which is of primary importance in preserving the value of the big college,--and that is contact; the college, the faculty, must do their utmost to keep in touch with the men. Only in this way can the number of misfits, always too numerous, be lessens Only by combining the small group and the wider field can be the ideal of college be difined and the ever present specter of limitation laid...
...Smuts, the South African premier, has been doing everything in his power to bring matters to a peaceful conclusion. In its work along this line, however, the government has refrained from taking sides. Acting wisely and impartially it has already reached a basis for arbitration, and is doing its utmost to bring about an agreement between the miners and mine-owners...