Word: clear
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Questions of student life occupy a prominent place in the Advocate of January 26. The article on the Student Council is a clear and forcible statement of the purposes and functions of that organization, and should do much to commend it to the student body and thus help to secure for it a high degree of efficiency. There is also a cordial word of welcome to the newly elected President of the University, with suggestions as to the policy he should adopt; but perhaps it will be as well to reserve such suggestions till he shall have taken his seat...
...much interest to us all. This event will remain in the minds of most readers of the second article, that of Mr. S. A. Mellor on the Oxford Undergraduate. Everybody is now meditating advice to the new President, formulating programs for the new regime and such a clear and interesting account of what our great cousin across the seas does for her sons, abounds in suggestion for the enrichment of student life here. The photographs used in illustration enforce what the author has to say of the architectural beauties of Oxford, fill the Harvard reader with the ever-renewed regret...
...flashing glimpse, a scarce-seen face, A figure clear, then gone...
...career, that choice is often made with a superficial knowledge of the nature, inducements and difficulties of the different professions. It is also based on the belief that the occupations known as professions are all equally worthy, and that even those men who think they have a clear predilection for a particular profession make a great mistake if they do not see what the others have to offer. In the choice of lecturers the Governing Board hopes to secure men of distinction in every subject--taking sometimes men who are far advanced in successful careers and sometimes comparatively young...
...this year in the conditions governing the award of the Pasteur Medal. Instead of taking part in a debate, the men in the final contest will be permitted to treat any phase of the subject. In making the award, the judges will take into consideration not only logic and clear presentation but also the general knowledge, manner of delivery, and literary style of the speakers...