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States represented by four or more men: 1912- 1913- 1914- 1915- 1913 1914 1915 1916 New England, 50 51 71 69 Middle Atlantic States, 14 16 25 26 Middle Western States, 19 24 31 51 Western States, 9 7 11 16 Southern States, 10 9 10 12 Foreign, 5 6 9 7 -- -- -- -- Total no of men, 107 113 148 182 No. of colleges represented, 42 46 62 72 1912- 1913- 1914- 1915- 1913 1914 1915 1916 Arkansas, 4 California, 6 5 Colorado, 4 Illinois, 6 7 10 Indiana, 5 4 9 Iowa, 5 Maine, 5 6 Massachusetts...
...campaign has been undertaken by the Pittsburg alumni of Princeton to raise funds with which to meet the university's deficit for the current year. The Princeton Alumni Association of Western Pennsylvania is in charge of the work, and has divided the members into groups, according to the years of matriculation of the men. The classes graduated during the last fifteen years are reported as having already raised a considerable amount of money...
...When the two civilizations of the East and West came into clash, the open-door policy was forced upon China. She suffered humiliations and defeats at the hands of the western invaders, and finally realized that she must strive to adapt herself to new conditions. A series of reforms were already in effect before the Manchu dynasty was overthrown. Of these, the educational policy underwent the most radical change. Western scientific courses were introduced, and the examinations on old classics were abolished. Today schools for new learning stand on the ground of the spacious examination halls...
...Harvard create more opportunities for self-help and, like Princeton, attract the country's attention to her democratic and progressive spirit--Emerson had the job of "President's Freshman." The problem of nation-wide representation will then be on the way to a solution, and Western and Southern states will be as well represented at Harvard as is the State of New York. FREDERICK BUTLER...
...cruel and unusual punishment has been meted out to the student mind at Bowdoin, New York University, and a Middle Western state university. . . . Elementary questions about the war, such as the location of Gallipoli and Saloniki, the identity of Venizelos, Viviani, Poincare, . . . were presented to certain college classes, with the result that Venizelos appeared as anything from a French general to a Mexican rebel. . . . The Dean of Bowdoin questions whether students of New England colleges are very steady newspaper readers. . . . The trouble is that if the proper names mean nothing, the reading is of limited good. The fault...