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...national university with a local college as its neucleus? The answer is to make the College also national. And the chief reason why it fa9ls to keep pace with the University in national expansion, is to be found in the system of entrance examinations. Particularly in the western part of he country these examinations militate strongly against a greater number of men coming to Harvard, because admission to the local western colleges requires only a certificate. The factor of inaccessibility has been largely obviated by the decision to accept Board examinations. Nevertheless, as long as examinations of any sort...
...that men from 144 different colleges are attending the Law School. Both these phases are well known. Not so commonly realized, however, is an equally conclusive evidence derived from the number of men holding University degrees who are on the faculties of other colleges. Taking at random eight representative western universities, the CRIMSON has found that of their faculties an average of nine per cent. hold Harvard degrees. The highest percentage is in Missouri, where 36 out of 241 men are graduates of Harvard; Wisconsin comes last among those investigated with 6.3 per cent. At Columbia, the largest university...
...events which began with the outbreak of the Russo-Turkish war in 1787 and ended in the new dismemberment of Poland six years later. It is based upon extensive researches in the archives of Petrograd, Moscow, Berlin, and Vienna, and upon the materials printed in Russian, Polish, and the western languages...
...planned the recess is to extend from December 23 to January 3. Besides being very brief, when it is remembered that for many men this is the only vacation offering any possibility of a visit home, it has another disadvantage. It does not allow time for men from the western Mississippi Valley and beyond to reach their homes by Christmas day or to remain for New Year's. And the latter is, especially in the West, almost as great a holiday as the former. To be sure, the Office often allows an extra day or two for such...
...standing of the western conference elevens, to date, leaves Minnesota and Illinois tied for honors. The former has defeated Chicago and lowa and tied Illinois, while the latter has defeated Wisconsin and tied Ohio State. The latter's claim is marred by its defeat at the hands of Wisconsin...