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CENTENARY COLLEGIATE MsTI.
TUTE.

The terrific wind storm that visited
Hackettstown, N. J., the last few days OF
March robbed the campus Of Centenary
Collegiate Institute of one of its oldest
landmarks. The beautiful willow tree
that stood between Administration
Building and North Hall was torn up by
the roots, though for forty-five years II
had weathered the storms Of winter and
given shade and beauty to the campus
In summer.
DR.. Charles e. Little, then pastor of
Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church Of
Hackettstown, planted this tree during
the administration of DR.. Whitney, c. c.
lis first president.
President and Mrs. Trevorrow and
Miss Breckenridge, head Of North Hail,
attended the reunion of 1917 class at
the McAlpin Hotel in New York city.
On April Or. Leon H. Vincent of
Boston addressed the assembly Of stu
dents. faculty and visitors on James
Russell Lowell" Lowell became the real
man to all the audience while the
speaker portrayed him as professor,
statesman and poet.
April were celebrated as an Easter
service Special music by violin and
vocal quartets and several solos, and the
entire student body sang in professional
and occasional. DR.. Trevorrow gave an
Inspiring Easter message The Easter
holidays began the morning Of the 18th
and ended on Easter Monday evening.
President Trevorrow was the speaker
for Sunday. April 10. at Wheaton Col
lege. Norton, Mass.
A number of basketball games, par
ticipated In by all the classes at various
times. resulted In final victory for the
seniors. This was celebrated by a din
ner given by the victorious senior class
to their defeated sister class, the sopho-
mores.
The varsity basketball team has
matched twice with the High School
team Of the town. losing one game 10 to
3. but victorious in the last, with the
score of II to in their favor
On Wednesday. April 8. the indoor
meet was held. bringing to close the
indoor athletic work for the school year.
Miss 1nez Larcom. 10. Of West Newton,
Mass. carried Off the individual honors
and won the silver cup for her class.
On Tuesday, April 3. a recital Of organ
and piano was given by Miss Helen
Trumbower of Andover. N. ]. Miss
Trumbower Is one Of c. C. rs grad
yates. but returned to take up the music
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From wOoDroRD PATTERSON,
gscretory Of Cornell Unsvsrs.sy, Ithaoo
". Y.

Ffom wOouFUhU fATVBhbONs
gscretary Of Cornell Univsrsssy, ithaca,
N. Y.
Your letter Of April 20 was recsivsd.
think the plan which you suggest for
q summer term 10 exactly the plan that
Cornell University has adopted for the
summer OF 1919. Most Of the depart
ments Of Cornell University will remain
in session for six, eight or twelve weeks
this summer for the express purpose OF
enabling students to make up time which
they lost by reason Of military service.
The College OF Arts and Sciences ut
Cornell will have summer term Of six
weeks, July to August 16. The two
engineering colleges and the College Of
Architecture will DO In session eight
weeks, July to August 30. The New
York State College Of Agriculture will
have its regular summer term Of twelve
weeks. June "a to September 10. There
will DO also q regular summer session Of
the university. from July to August IL.
The university promised as long ago
as last December to arrange this sum-
mer term 20 that students who had been
in the Students Army Training Corps
and whose regular work had been inter-
rupted for that reason might get in \
full year Of college work between Janu-
airy ! and September /. Tho summer
term will be useful also to students who
are just leaving the army. The calendar
for the special term has been arranged
In the several colleges Of Corneil with
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What Is Going On
Within Academic Walls

Korea. He generously agreed to address
the upper school on the subject Of his
observations In Corea, and in a half
hour talk afforded a most interesting
picture Of conditions there to-day, Of
the history Of the Koreans, and Of their
relation to the japanese and to the
Chinese.
The students were most appreciative
OF this opportunity for first hand infor-
nation upon q subject which, in con-
nection with the plea Of the Filipinos
for their independence. is attracting at
world
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department will have a waiting list in
| the fall.
Arrangements are completed for COM
mencement week beginning June 1. A
distinct feature will be the publication
Of tho school annual Many improve
ments have been made to the school
plant which will be particularly pleas
ing to the alumni and friends.
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were served were an interesting part Of
the programme.
On Friday the baseball team played
the alumni, and on Saturday the New
York Military Academy.
Mr.. Hederick, who has been i'll, has
returned to his classes.
Final examinations are to held May
26, AZ and 2S.
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RIvERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL

The independence OF Korea was one
OF the assigned topics in Current Events
Class at Riverdale Country School. New
York city, on Tuesday last. The follow
ing day the head master happened to
meet Haig p. Chutjian. father OF one OF
the boys. who has Just returned from
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partly in English and partly in French.
The Greenwich conseil of the Alliance
Franchise held its last meeting of the
season at Rosemary Thursday after
noon. Mile. Holthoir gave a humorous
recitation.
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he Bethlehem Preparatory School
Bethlehem, Pa. Is maintaining
it's former record for good ath-

Bethlehem, Pa. Is maintaining
its former record for good sth-
II sent i've boys to the New
York University interscholastics and
won first place. Last Saturday II won
the Lawrenceville School meet. The
baseball and tennis teams are still I'M
defeated.
While the athletic field IL busy place
after school hours, yet the boys are
working hard In preparation for the
College entrance board examinations
which will be held at the school In June
and for individual college examinations.
The school has had this year the
largest enrolment In It's history and
Judging from the present applications
will be filled long before school opens
In September.
Tho summer school. which begins in
early July and which has always been
Of great service to many young mon.
will be Of particular advantage to
largo number of young men this sum
mer. especially to the young soldier
who wishes to enter college in the fall
The lower school has proved note
worthy addition and the efficiency Of Its
work brings many visitors for observa-
ton, and It is already certain that this
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-05-11
From JOHN GREER HIBBEN.

President Of. PriNcstoN UNtusrsity,
Prtnceton, N. J.
I have received your letter concern
ing the possibility Of o summer session
for the men returning from the army
and navy. We have discussed this
matter quite at length at Princeton and
feel that there II not n sufiicient de-
mand for II from our students, inasmuch
as we have made very generous offer
to the men IN service and q very large
number OF them have returned. We
give them the privilege Of receiving
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-05-11
Presidents and Other College Officers
Discuss Plan of Holding Summer
Sessions for the Benefit of Young
Men Released From War Service

credit for the whole years work by re-
turning to us for this third term. be-
ginning April 1. This plan seems TO
have provided for all Of our men who
have written 70 us inquirfng - to the
possibility Of continuing their education.
Those who return during the summer
win Also receive the Same kind Of Gen-
erous treatment and may possibly Sc
cure their degrees By taking one term
with W as equivalent to the usual work
Of the entire year.
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.HERE Is great need for the 20
men who have served in the arm
and 4, Va. and haua nsnnn nnlAa a

1HERE Is great need for the young
81 men who have served in the army
and navy and have been released
BY the Government for opportunity to
continue or complete their college sdu-
cation. Would It not DO q splendid
undertaking for all, or nearly all, OF the
colleges throughout the country to offor
an all summer course for the benefit Of
those war veterans who were either In
college, or about to enter. when they en-
listed In the war service Of our country
to II not unfair to deprive them of their
collegiate education? And 10 It not
tust. in fact. imperative. In Justice to
give the extra advantages OF special
terms or courses for their benefit?
!. The Editor has asked a number OF
college presidents and college officials
70 express their views upon this impor-
liant subject and herewith presents the
enswers received, as symposium on the
topic:
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From ANsoN PHELPS STOKES.

Secretary Yols UntversIty. New Hopen,
Conn.
Replying to your letter Of April 20
beg to state that we are to have a
special summer term at Yale this year
for law students. We are also to have
the usual summer sessions for our En-
cheering students and Forestry stu
dents.
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From JOSEPH SWAIN,

President OF S,oartAmors College,
Stoorthmore, Po.
: Allow me to state in response to your
letter OF April 20 that believe that all
colleges and universities In the country,
20 far as local conditions make II desir-
able and feasible, will be glad TO do all
that they can at summer sessions to help
make up time for former or prospective
etudents who have lost one or two years
by entering the army and navy. II
would not be necessary for all colleges
TO have such summer sessions. For ex-
ample. the University Of Pennsylvania
and other institutions In Philadelphia, al
ready hold summer sessions and are
able to take care Of all the students at
present that demand such summer work
IN the vicinity Of Philadelphia. II, there
fore. would be a duplication Of effort II
Swarthmore undertook at this time to
hold summer session. The needs Of
the future may change these conditions
~ would seem, however, that all COLI
ieges should cooperate in every way they
can to give not only those In the army
and navy but those who have been alb
sent from college in any public service
during this war every opportunity to
continue with their studies. No body of
citizens has given more freely and more
hftNiy Va tHuh tlIti6 " pdtTlOtlC WORK
than the teachers in our colleges, univer-
stiles and other schools.
From WILLIAM A. sHANKLIN.
President Of wesieyan U~sverstty, Md
dletoson, Conn.
: With regard to your inquiry Of Aprfl
10 concerning the question Of college
summer sessions for the benefit of former
or prospective students who have lost
one or two years by entering the army
or navy, we have considered at Wesleyan
University the desirability of such an ar
fangement. but have found that the
humber Of our students who would utii-
IKE such a summer term would not Jus
tify the effort and expense. We shall
follow our custom Of giving credit to our
students who take work in other summer
schools. We take pains TO nsip each
Individual student with his plano that he
may make the best arrangements practi.
cable foT fitting In his summer worA
with his regular course here We antici-
pate that rather more than the usual
number will avail themselves Of this
privilege in the coming summer.
Were there not excellent summer
schools conducted by the larger universi-
ties at convenient points throughout the
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area Of the New England and middle
Atlantic States. from which we draw
most Of our students, We should feel tho
necessity Of making some special ar
rangcment to help these men ourselves.
for We believe that every facility practi-
cable should be AFFORDED these men for
completing their college education a.
promptly as possible.
An important reason why compare
lively few OF our students care to avail
themselves Of the summer session IL that
an extremely large proportion of them
utilize the summer months to earn
money for dcfraying their expenses dur
Ing the college year and could not AFFORD
either the expense Of the summer term
or the sacrifice OF that time from pro-
ductive employment.
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reference to both those clssses OF stu
denta
from JAMES o. EGBERT,
Director Of Summer Session, Col.mbio
Universtty.

Director Of Summer Session, Columbia
Uriverstty.
Columbia University opens II TWEEN
tieth summer session on July z. During
the six weeks OF the summer session
courses are given In practically all un-
cereraduate subjects and in many phases
OF professional and graduate work. Spe-
ciai attention 10 given to courses In edu-
cation in Teachers College.
The Columbia summer session offers to
men who have been In national service
opportunity for making up some of the
work which has been interrupted by the
war. The director OF the summer Sos
SION will advise such men on the most
advantageous course to pursue and will
mako every effort TO secure for them an
adjustment Of collegiate credits.
Columbia University, a. all other edu-
cational institutions Of the country. has
suffered financially because Of the war
ana ~ unable to offsr TO soldiers, sailors
and Marines reduction Of feea The
total expense for the summer session.
however. may be kept within $3.50.
FROM ERNEST M. HOPKINS,
President Dartmouth College, Honoveri
N. RI.
The question of q summer session es-
pecially adapted to enabling men who
had been In service to even UP their
records or TO catch UP on back work was
very carefully considered at Dartmouth
College. Eventually the college stated
Its position as willing to provide for
such q session, II a comparatively large
number of the students wished such q
project undertaken, but that. on the
other hand. the college would arrange
to give credit for work done in other
institutions where summer terms had
been announced. II the students in large
measure preferred to do their summer
work in the institutions nearer their
homes.
Upon poll Of the student body the lat
ter alternative seemed moro popular
and the college In therefore operating on
that basis. -
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From EDMUND @. SANFORD,

From EDMUND O. SANFORD,
President Of Clark College, Worcester.
Moss.
In answer to your letter would say
that the plan already N operation In
many institutions Of summer session
at which those who have been In ma
tional service may hasten the compile
ton of their college courses seems to
me an admirable one. We at Clark
College are planning upon q summer
session beginning July 7 and ending
August Is.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-01-24

which has taught the community the value
of raising breeded types of poultry, ana
which has adopted cooperative plan OF SELL
ing eggs and chickens under the CLUB guar.
anty.
A pig club, which will do for hog breeding
what the poultry club is doing in it's field.
An observation-disclosures Sunday school
that has a genuine capitalization influence
in the community.
A high school annex, where students may
make four and a half units of accredited
work
community band, composed of twenty
pieces, and a junior band Of fourteen pieces
which give concerts at regular intervals.
These improvements have been the means
of greatly increasing land values This fact
has Influenced every interest, young and old
alike, and has resulted in wedding every
grownup boy and girl to the farm. mot
one" says Mrs. Turner-Harvey, "has been
lost to the community during the six years,
excepting in the several cases where a FAM
lily moved out of the district for business
reasons.
Through cooperation the school has be-
come more than a community center. 'It
is, in fact, distributing center of efficiency,
social and economic, used every day in the
week, twelve months in the year. It's peo-
pie are happy, contented, and striving for
better things in life. They are intensely
patriotic, because they are an informed peo-
Pile"
When America entered the great war this
community was found in a state of prepared
ness. It's people credited with having
subscribed in one year the sum of $16,58S
to Liberty Bonds, Thrift Stamps, Red Cross
and other war service campaigns.
Four Of this cOmmunitys young men are
volunteers in the army and navy, and the
others are rendering patriotic service by
making more acres yield more food to help
supply the world with it's sustenance.
The country needs just such service is
being rendered by Porter school district
Teachers who are really and truly American
in their ideals and in their nature, are i'm
peratively needed in the rural section of our
country, where they can render invaluable
service to the nation as well as to the i'm
mediate community in which they teach.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-01-24
SKYSCAPERS OF CANTON

"a Blue sink of yellow devils"-it is thus
that Canton, China, has been labeled by
civilization whose every sense is offended by
this ancient city, where there are more peo-
pie to the square yard than in any other city
in the world and more evil to the square inch.
In Cantons vast honeycomb of filthy streets
only eight feet wide, three million people
manage to exist within radius of twelve
miles.
Most of the crowded houses are only one
story high They reek OF sandalWood and
the fumes of opium. The unpleasant odors Of
fried onions and chow-puppies steam from
many shops among them.
Conspicuous among those slovenly novels
rise pagodas and pawnshops-the skyscrapers
of this Satanic city of the Orient. The
pagodas are the most attractive and graceful
things about Canton, and it is believed among
the yellow-skinned inhabitants that the good
fortune of Canton is connected with the most
famous of these-the Five-storied Pagoda.
All strangers are taken to see this pagOda,
from which an exceptionally fine view of the
city may be obtained. Other picturesque
Oriental skyscrapers are the Flowery Pagoda
all crsply curled and crimped red roof1ets
and the nine-storied OctagOnal Pagoda or
similar style, which was built over thirteen
centuries ago. The Mohammedan Mosque is
100 feet high and is very attractive in its
architecture 1t is over one thousand years
old, and was built by adventurous Arabs in
Canton.
But the most interesting of CantOn's sky
scrapers are the huge neutrality-suspicious.
temples of Mammon-whose severely plain,
long walls stretch up into the air above the
opium vapors and wild noises Of the streets
In case of marriage or death, it is to these
pawnshops that the wretched poor come, and
pawn whatever goods they may possess in
order to secure the funds for the pOmpOus
ceremonials which they believe necessary for
the occasion. In the sweltering heats or
early summer they pawn their winter cloth
ing in the tall, grim shops AS the seasons
roll by they pawn first one and then the other
set of wearing apparel. In Canton the in
habitants never worry about moths or trunks
the pawnships do it all for them.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-01-24
BOLSHEVIKISM

The car of Russia is lost in legend. I'm
less he shall again appear definitely in the
flesh, so that his identity may be positively
established before all the world, the question
of his fate will be always disputed. He will
take his place in the list with the lost dauphin
of France, who is supposed to have lived out a
quiet life in America after being spirited
away and with John Ord, a brother of
Franz Josef, who renowned his title and
sailed away in a vessel reported lost with all
hands, but who is supposed to be living in
cognito on an obscure, palm-shaded island,
far from the reach of the turmoil that marked
the last days of the Hapsburg cOurt-NeW
York Tribune.
The New York World of the same date pub
fishes what is declared to be an official &C
count from ''the Siberian government of
Russians established at Omsk," a CHASTITY,
sickening story of the murder of the Roman
off family and the crimes more horrible than
murder which preceded the snuffng out of
the lives of the car, the czarina and their
children.
The Worlds narrative of the fate of the
youthful grand duchesses in the hands of
drunken Bolsheviki guards" for days before
murder ended the misery and horror of their
lives is not the sort of thing any reasonable
human being can read without horror. And
it is practically reiteraLion and seeming con-
frmation of a stor. previously told.
The world cannot lightly pass over the
murder of the Romanoffs as a second mystery
of the lost dauphin, or the American story of
the kidnapping of Charlie Ross. Everyone
would like to believe that by some lucky
chance the RomanoffG escaped the sort OF fate
chat naturally awaited them when they be-
came the helpless prisoners of the abysmal
brutes into whose hands they fell after the
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-01-24
NATIONAL AIMS
BV Dr.. Frank Crane


One of the fictions of politics which it is the
business of democracy to destroy is tnat of
national aims.
If we say that it was the national aim of
Germany to govern the WorlG by coalition
of central powers in Europe, if we say it is
the national aim of Great Britain to rule the
seas, and if we say that it seems to be the
national aim of Russia at present to extend
the destruction of capital and private proper
ty over all the earth, then to that category
America does not belong.
All the national aims have are to mind
our own business, to protect ourselves against
assault and to assist the world in preventing
war.
We have no conceited notion of our mani
fest destiny of conquest or of world leader
ship.
If we are in the forefront of things just
now, if our president and councillors at the
peace table are looked up to by weaker
tons and deferred to by equals, it is simply
because we have been led to thi; place by
power not of ourselves. We have been the
blind puppets of destiny.
If the hour has arrived for us to lead the
world it is not because we have climbed to
this privilege as Alexander and Napoleon did,
and as William Hohenzollern tried to do, but
because the inscrutable plans of fate nave
put us there.
From de- .ocracy"s point of view there is
no national glory aside from the welfare of
the people.
What will be the outcome OF the congress
of nations at Paris no one knows. Neither
can any one tell how we'll league ma
tons if such league be formed, will work.
But whatever the outcome, and whatever the
success of any pact the powers may make we
have no national ambitions to be thWarted
no dreams of glory and dominion to be SHAT
tered.
We stand for the working out of our own
destiny, and for the corollary of this, that
other nations should be allowed to work out
their own destinies
We leave the future open. We pretend to
make no stipulation which destiny must OBJ
serve. All insist upon is that people
shall be protected in it's right to govern it
self, and that it sh" II be prevented, by the
concert Of ALL if possible, from assuming the
right to govern another people
When the league of nations is set up it will
mean nothing as far as we are concerned be-
yond that which our forefathers meant when
they established the constitution of the Unit
ed States; our motto now will be, as it was
then:
LET us raise a standard to which the wise
and honest can repair. The event is in the
hand of Cod
Copyright, 1919 by Frank Crane)