davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-20
Latest News of Euents
in the Scholastic World

IT HE scholarship men at Kingsley
School, Essex Fells. N. j.. for
tho first six months OF the school
year are Carlos Alfaro, Rhea Ewing.
Kellogg Stryker and Warren T.. Green
or these Alfaro has held the first place
three times, Ewing three times. Alfaro
has been In the second place three times
an Ewing three times. Stryker las
Id third place five months out of the
s.x. No one Of these scholarship stu
dents has fallen below 90, and Ewing
and Alfaro have ranged from 90 to 81
In the recently closed basketball sea-
son kingsley won seven games out of
eleven, the schedule OF games played in
Guiding West Orange. South Orange.
Poly Prep of Brooklyn. the Morristown
School, the Alumni. ST. Paurs School,
Verona High School. Erasmus High
School. Newman School. Hoboken Acad-
envy and Horace Mann.
The school field day was to have been
held on Wednesday, April -. but the
cold weather and hard rain made post
ponement necessary In this meet silver
and copper medals are given for first
and second place. The baseball sched-
ule for the school is as follows:
Wednesday, April 90, West Orange H.
s.; Saturday, April &c, Pingry; Tuesday
April 90, Stevens Prep; Friday. May 2,
Glen Ridge II. S.. Monday, May g.,
Caldwell II. s.. Saturday. May 10. open !;
Wednesday. May IL. Carleton Academy;
Saturday, May II, Newark Academy !;
Wednesday, May 81, st. Paurs; Satur-
day. May "a, Alumni; Thursday, May
20. Bloomfield II. s.
Track schedule Ia as follows: Satur-
day, April &c. Penn relay games; Sat
urday, May 8, West Orange II. S.. FRI
day, May 16. Montclair Ii. S.; Friday,
May 90. Newark Academy, and Satur-
day. May 81. Kingsley interscholastic
meet.
The tennis team Is arranging its
schedule and expects TO have several in
terestlng tournaments.
On Saturday, April 20. the date sched-
uled for the Penn relay games, the
school will send relay team to Frank
lin Field to compete in the preparatory
school relay races. Last year Kingsley
won first place in the relay races in its
class.
Members of the Camera Club and the
artists OF the school are very busy maxi
ing pictures for kingsley Life the school
annual. The editors are pleased with
the interest shown throughout the
school in this annual publication and a
great deal of material has come in much
earlier than usual.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-20

failed. OF the sophomores seven only
were dropped and OF tho juniors one
only. There Is no senior class at Tech
this year, the men having gone into war
service long ago.
Technology is planning to do a good
deal in the way OF summer work and
Prof. Park, chairman OF the GUNNER
school committee. has issued requests
for early notification Of the desires of
the students. 1t is not unlikely under
the circumstances that there will be a
considerable number of students who
would like summer school work.
With reference to students in uni
form Col. E. r. Cole, L. S. A., retired
professor of military science and drill,
has notified the students that there will
be no necessity for returning to the
Government the S. A. T. T.. uniforms.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-20
Can English Be Saved?

THE last sign OF despair over the
loss OF an art is the Offering OF a
prize for a manifesto ton OF It.
gether. mournfully shook their heads
over its DISAPPEARANCE and advertised
rewards for its return SO much for a
sornet, a little less for an ode. and so
on in a descending scale to nothing at
all for an epic. The effect was more
than some of them hoped. Now Prof
Bliss Perry comes to New York hears
us talk. looks at our newspapers and
lifts up his voice 10 suggest prize for
the book OF the year. not the sort OF
volume ordinarily meant by this phrase.
but the book that is adjudged best IN
style. In addition he would have a dec
Grafton or n citation or something be-
slowed upon the actor or actress whose
speech on the stage Is the best. Prof
Perry Is by no means the only person
who Is concerned over the state OF our
language. a new magazine is an
| nounced IN England TO be called Eng
lish, to be edited by an Englishman
and to be the only magazine In the Brit
ish Empire devoted wholly TO the Eng
lsh language. It purposes to defend the
without, like the Germans. who once
| counted eagerly at the end of every year
the number OF additions to the German
speaking population OF tho world and
those within.
The menace comes from the latter,
continues an editorial In the Epenino
Post. They are arranged in the prospec-
tus OF the new magazine In this or
der, the worst first: newspapers, Parlia-
ment. the bar. tho pulpit. the plat
form; official documents; books. To
them, Prof. Perry would add immigra-
| ton, low standards in the schools and
American indifference. These various
| alleged culpTits would plead not guilty
with varying degrees Of surprise and in
| dignaton--all but the first. II Ia gen
| orally agreed that the most debasing as
we'll as most pervasive influence upon
English IL Journalism. Prof. Percy has
| lurid vision of the reporter "rudely''
coming words when writing in the SOM
nolent state in the small hours of the
morning" lie is too tender upon the
newspapers. Their real atrocities could
not be committed in a somnolent state.
| 1t takes Il man in the full possession of
his faculties to concoct the concise head
| fine: Vital Decisions Cnmade," mean
| ing by ''unmade," not reversed" but
| mot yet made" Well what does u
| matter? Isn't II better TO be clever than
correct? SO, at least. would argue Prof.
| Perry's indifferent public. on the other
hand, 1t would not he hard to prove
that most persons read Inv the newspa pers
better English than they usually hear
4 or speak II they see a lawless diCtion
/ in the headlines. they may, find below
lit The vel! composed despatch Of 4
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-20
MASSACHUSETTS TECH.

Tho Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology, Boston, Mass, is to raise It's
tuition fee to $500. against the $3.50
which had been the amount for good
many years. This fact Is announced In
The Institutes new pamphlet on general
information. The advance will not be
in effect until the fall of 1920, students
entering during the academic year 1919
1920 paying $3.50 for that year and $500
for succeeding years. The old fee will
apply to all students now in the insti-
tute till they have completed their
courses In addition there is the student
tax which is assessed on all male men,
bers of the student body, half the
amount being collected from those who
pay only one terms tuition. From
women students there will be collected
So or S1,5O. according TO the time that
they are in the school. The tax will be
RENTED and a corresponding amount
furnished from a fund applicable to
such uses when the student receives the
benefit OF scholarship. The proceeds
OF the tax will be devoted to the pro-
motion Of student life at Technology
with especial reference to the physical
and social welfare OF the students. No
part OF the tax Is to be given over for
athletics or for other functions unless
open without charge to every member
of the seudent body.
The Technology Christian Association,
In the past most active organization
and helpful TO students In many ways,
has been recrganized. In the new
scheme Scott Wells. go, Ia president ;
". G.. Abbott. 20, vice-president =;
Creighton Stanwood. 30, treasurer. and
q. w Goley. 20, general manager OF
the Tech Bible a book OF Information
published ny the society.
ranruHpizal alxnpin will have
It's headquarters in the Walker Memo
rial and will carry on tho familiar
duties. including publicity work. hook
exchange, information bureau, talks 10
students and room register. The
r G. A. includes in It's membership
Hebrews. Orientals and other foreigners,
who in cooperation with It and using
the methods that 1t has developed rem
der service 10 their compatriots,
Another renewed activity that Is OF
general interest is the resumption by
President and Mrs. Maclaurin OF in
formal receptions to students at the
presidents home. These gatherings give
the students an opportunity TO meet
the professors outside their classrooms.
Field day has been postponed to Fri
day. May .. at . 10 in the afternoon.
A new speaker among the lecturers
Of the immediate future IL Prof Arthur
H. blanchard. whose specially lies In
highway engineering. Prof. Hector j.
Hughes has In the past been the spe-
ciaiist In this work. but on account
OF the decision of the Supreme Court
affecting the cooperation between Har-
ward and the institute he Is no longer
SSaIIable Prof Blanchard Will lee
snre twice a week during May.
Despite Its largo enrolment the In
stituto Of Technology continues 70 be
fortunate IN the small number OF stu
dents who are forced to leave college
OF this years freshmen only eeven have
been dropped and OF the junior fresh
men eleven. no that only eighteen out
OF n class that early in the term num-
bsrsd about sight HUNDRED have really
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-20
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO.

More than hve hundred courses will
be offered at the University OF Chicago
during the summer quarter. which be-
sins June l6 and ends August 20. The
Arst term begins June IS and the second
term July "a. Students may enter for
either term or for both. The courses are
the same in character, method and credit
value an in other parts of the year.
More than two hundred and fifty will
be IN the summer faculty, including
many from the faculties OF other insti-
tutions. These institutions Include OK
ford University. Yale, Princeton. Column
bia, the University OF Pennsylvania.
Clark University. Smith College, Mount
Holyoke. the universities OF Michigan,
Wisconsin. Illinois. Minnesota, Iowa.
Nebraska, Texas and Idaho and the
Throop College OF Technology, Califor-
MIA.
Over one hundred courses for teach ars
are offered for this quarter, and during
superintendent Week (July 1919
there will be special lectures by Prof.
Howe OF the University of Iowa, Super
intendent Withers Of St Louis, Superin-
tendent Chadsey OF Chicago and Super
intendent Hartwell OF St Paul.
Two hundred and seventy-fve schol-
arships of the LaVerne Noyes Founda-
the University of Chicago. The purpose
Of the foundation is to express the
donors gratitude to those who ventured
the supreme sacrifice of life for their
country and for the freedom OF man
kind and to aid in keeping alive the
spirit OF patriotic devotion. The net in
como from the foundation Is 10 pay the
tuition of deserving students who served
In tho army or navy OF the United
States in the great war or who are de-
scendants by blood of any one who has
given such service.
Prof Paul Shorey head OF the depart
ment OF the Greek language and liiera-
ture at the University of Chicago. who
Is giving courses In Greek literature at
the University OF California, has accept
ed an invitation To deliver the Phi Beta
Kappa address at the latter institution
on June 3.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-20
A TUFTS-JACKS0N PLAY.

A cast made up of students from Tufts
and Jackson Colleges will present on
Wednesday, April 80, the four-act En9-
fish comedy. The Cassilis EngagementS
by St John Hankin.
The play Will he staged under the dc
fection of the "Masque" Society OF jack
son and the rehearsals are in charge Of
Albert II. Gilmer professor OF drama In
Tufts.
The cast includes: Mrs. Cassilis,
Grace Chilson, go; The Countess Of
Remenham. Anita Balzar, 80: Lady
Marchmont, Grace y. Sherburne. '19t
Mrs. Herris. Marion Phillips. 20 Mrs.
Borridge. Irene Gushing. go; Lady Mabls
Venning. Margaret Lynch. 30; Ethel
Borridge. Ruth Brooks, 10; The Rector,
Leonard Carmichael, '21: Major Wars
rington, Hugh S. McKenna '1a; Godfrey
Cassilis, Merton A. Hosmer. 10; Watson
the butler, Francis OBrien, '22; Dorset.
Mrs. Cassiliss maid, Gertrude Berry. 20.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-20

and half hours spent in the gymnasium
appeals considerably to busy people. The
principal thing Is the invigoration that
swimming gives to the person.
I'VE do not take people who want TO
lose weight quickly. nor do We pretend
to do anything as complicated as the
various kinds Of baths and messages
and treatments given by most health
symnasiums. All we endeavor to ac-
complish, and do accomplish, Is that
which our healthful exercises can do In
keeping ones body we'll. Contrary to
the general opinion swimming is not
violent exercise. that Is to say. scientific
swimming, as we teach It. We never
allow any one to overdo 1t. Relaxing ef-
feet of the water. the gentle, easy
method Of swimming we teach. the ne
cessity Of keeping ones mind fully on
the strokes, in exceedingly beneficial both
mentally and physically. Nobody can
worry in the water, you know. while he
is trying to keep adoat Therefore
swimming is decidedly healthful to
nervous and worried people.
I'VE havs developed certain strokes
to attain certain results For instance,
the Dalton stroke develops the chest and
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-20

personal interviews and criticisms; spe-
cial topics and examinations
The field work will be In the clubs OF
all girls organizations such as settle
ments. National League OF Women
Workers. Y. NJ. C. A, organized groups
and community centres of New York and
vicinity. All types of community equip
ment and personnel in club membership
will be covered
Except for reasons OF weight, the de-
partment announces. applicants must
have had either two years OF study at a
recognized college or not less than a
year of practical experience In social
work and full high school education.
Each applicant for the full course must
report for personal interview at the
office of the National League OF Women
Workers IS East Thirtieth street
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-20
Educational Methods

Thanks TO a few serious minded, In
telligent, conscientious citizens we are
able to boast of our advancement In
school work, hut we are restless be-
cause the growth Is so slow. the UNI
foldment so gradual.
a little time given to contemplation
and some introspection, would place
most of us in the shamefaced attitude
of self-condemned "slackers," veritable
evaders of our duty to our children
and through them to the public.
While We are Justly proud OF our dn-
situations of learning and gratefully note
the strides of progress. we still muSe
press forward to greater achievement.
If we fail in duty, great will be the
consequent delay in lettering educa~
tional methods. Shall we awake to our
responsibility or shall we continue apA-
thetic, Inert and criminally negligentz
H, NJ. R
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-20

foreign correspondent who Is not indif-
ferent to his medium.
a blacker picture OF our English than
that painted by Prof. Perry is drawn by
II. L. Mencken in his new book, THE
American Language" The exigencies
or his vocation, he remarks pleasantly,
make him almost completely bi-ling1lal
4 can write English" he continues, las
in this clause, quite as readily as Amer
lean. AZ in this here one" Having thus
shocked HIS reader he proceeds to a
serious consideration OF American speech
which is illustrated by mass Of I'm
proprieties, barbarisms and slang until
ono concludes that the problem OF res
cuing English has been solved--there Is
no English left TO rescue. But before
one gives way to despair let him ask
himself whether or not this is new
development How elegant was the Eng
lish that Shakespeare and Ben Jonson
heard on their way TO and from the
Mermaid Tavern and In the hosiery as
wellP Do the snatches OF II that are
preserved in their plays give us a high
idea OF 81? Would not an observer of
their day noting the extreme tiuidty
OF the language, have been alarmed for
the shapes into which It might crystal
lie? When he saw their audiences reused
by gaudy rhetoric. tickled by coarse
humor and not always even tolerant Of
poetry, what would have been his fore
bodinSs for what was to become the
tongue OF Keats and Lincoln?
This is not TO argue that II a langlia &c
be left TO grow up wild It will turn
out we'll Nor is It impossible to IN
fluence Its growth. Not only the
Lincolns but also Prof. Perry and n
host like him have helped TO elevate
the public taste or to keep II from
bacllslidng. The newspaper "colyumist"
II lie delights in verbal freakishness
likes nothing better than to ridcule COM
mon errors In grammar or infellcitles
of style. Certain waves there is no
buffeting, The purists show bad judg-
ment In f'yhting them. In a large way
a language will be what 1t chooses
But the crisis for English was passed
! long ago. We do not have to create,
but only TO preserve and to enlarge
Those to whom beautiful English Is
precious have always been a small part
of the users OF English, but Is there
any reason for supposing that they are
not larger part than ever before7
The number OF persons who have been
deprived Of opportunities for acquiring
good English and who are striving to
make up for the loss Is immense. Every
where there are classes. often volun-
tary, in public speaking composed Of
men who hang on the words of a critic
with painful attention. Most persons
| have two tongues, the one they use
and the one they admire. 1t IL the
| duty of the nation TO foster the knowl-
edge and the practice of the best Eng
| lish, and TO its efforts in this direction
1t viii find 4 ready RESPONSE
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-20
latest News Of the Life and
Spirit Within Academic Walls
NAVAL unit at Harvard for mex,

NAVAL unit at Harvard for next
n year is planned by the Navy De-
partment. according to the an
nouncement to the Crimson made by
acting Secretary Franklin y. Roosevelt,
'04. The unit at Harvard would be in
conformity with the plan of the depart
ment to establish naval training stations
at several OF the larger universities
throughout the country. In discussing
the plans for the Harvard school Secre-
tary Roosevelt said: During the fresh
man year students in the course would
cooperate with the Field Artillery Unit
for their elementary military work. but
In the summer OF the first year there
would be q separate camp for the navy
men. This camp would consist or a
practice cruise. where the main en-
phasis would be laid upon the teaching
Of practical navigation.
During the next three years at the
college the work would be more highly
specialized. with additional courses in
navigation, and also the study OF the
theory OF nautical training. Courses
taken would count as credit for the
academic degree. After the second year
II Is hoped that division will be made
in the unit between those who are in
terested in the navy and those who are
looking for positions in the merchant
marine. The former will be put on
naval training ships. and possibly given
temporary positions as petty officers,
while the latter will be sent to sea on
commercial vessels. where they will get
experience which would lead to advance
ment in the merchant marine
"By the end OF the senior year students
who successfully complete the course
would receive commissions In the re-
serve and those who had studied for the
merchant marine would be given posi-
lions of trust on merchant vessels or IN
commercial houses without the usual
preliminary training on Government
ships"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-20
PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE

STATE COLLEGE, Pa, April 1s.-Mem-
orial trees are to be planted on the
Pennsylvania State College campus In
tribute to the sixty-two alumni and stu
dents who died while In their country's
service. The Board of Trustees to-day
approved the project.
Various college organizations propose
planting the trees and attaching brass
tablets to perpetuate the memory OF
their members who made the supreme
sacrifice. Greek letter fraternities. So
cial clubs and societies will unite In the
movement.
1t is proposed to plant oaks. walnuts
and other long lived species Of trees.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-20

~ EMEMBER the days when you
X used to play hockey from school
for dive and a splash in the old
swimming hole? To-day busy men and
women are playing hockey from worry
and care for that same old refreshing
dip. Yes, right here In New York. in a
glorified swimming hole of white tiles
and warm. filtered water
The order of the times Is physical fit
ness. Busy people need physical exer-
else, need healthy bodies to keep their
brains clear and the vigorous enersy
that is needed In important war or bust
ness work.
Doctors tell you there Is no more
healthful exercise known to science than
swimming. 1t invigorates, relaxes and
develops.
The Dalton Swimming Schools are the
opponents of a new science Of swimming
for physical development.
You would be surprised" says Louis
Dalton, "at the number of men ano
women who are coming here to-day
purely from n health standpoint. OF
course the fact that twenty minutes of
swimming proves as beneficial as one
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-20
HOLY CROSS COLLEGE.

Public announcement is made OF tho
foundation OF X. h, new literary So
ciety, at Holy Cross College, Worcester.
Mass. X X. is unique. both In the fact
that membership is awarded only to
those who possess literary ability above
the ordinary and that 1t will extend the
same honor to graduates. Hitherto the
societies at Holy Cross have been con-
fined solely 10 undergraduates, but It is
now hoped by the founders OF the X. X.
to include among its members such
alumni as have distinguished themselves
In literature.
The society has elected ms president
John n. Stanislaus, 10, OF New York,
who is an associate editor OF the Purple
and the 1919 Pdtchcr and former
president of the Philomathic Debating
Society, and j. Robert Clair, 20, OF Dor
chester, vice-president. lie is also an
associate editor o. the PaTH,s. As Treas
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-20
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY.

To meet great demand for trained
organizers OF recreation and workers
with girls. the department of extension
teaching at Columbia University, OF
which Professor James c. Egbert is di-
rector, is offering a training course for
girls recreation work. The course,
which Is designed to provide intensive
technical training. will be given In CO.
operation with the National League OF
Women Workers from May IL to
June 49,
The work will consist OF eighteen lee
lures OF two hours each. including dis
cussion: full training course compris-
Ing, in addition to the lecture course,
fifteen round-table discussions of one
and half hours each: supervised field
work, not less than twelve hours a week,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-20
LAFAYETTE COLLEGE.

President MacCracken OF Lafayette
College. Easton, Pa. announces the APP
pontment OF John r. Crawford 10 the
professorship of Latin at Lafayette Col
lege Prof. Crawford has resigned his
position as assistant professor OF Ro-
man Archaeology at Columbia University
TO accept position at Lafayette. Prof
Crawford was graduated from Allegheny
College in 1905, received his A NJ. at
Harvard in 1908 and his Phi. d. at Har-
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-20

urer and secretary Joseph p. Keenan,,
81. of Albany, n. Y, and Matthew T.
Mcclure. 81, OF Charlestown. respec-
lively. have been elected. The faculty
counsellor and representative in the ad-
visory senate is Raymond IL. McInniss.
8. j.
Jospeh ]. Reilly. '04. chairman OF the
Massachusetts Civil Service Commission,
has been elected a member of the So
ciety. Mr.. Reilly is the author OF a
work on James Russell lowell.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-20
SCHOOLS COLLEGES AND ACADEMIES

ward In 1915. lie was a Lieutenant In
the United States Army during the re-
cent war and IL the son of President
Crawford OF Allegheny College. He Is
a member of the Phi Kappa Psi Frater-
nifty, and will enter his active duties as
professor of Latin at Lafayette at the
beginning of the next college year.