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Twenty-six upperclassmen and six Freshmen reported for fall lacrosse practice yesterday. Among these were four of last year's University team and six of the 1922 Freshman team. Captain L. Hall '20, A. C. Frenyear '21, C. Leslie '21, and E. D. Hirschberg '21 were the University letter...
...required to file health certificates which are the result of a medical examination. Provided that they can file a complete school record, showing that they have completed satisfactorily the full requirements for admission to college, and that they have graduated from an acceptable secondary school, and can show a letter of recommendation from the principal of that school, they may then be permitted to substitute the mental tests for the entrance examinations...
...letter accepting President Lowell's invitation, Cardinal Mercier said that he would regard it as an honor to "express his gratitude to the great institution which has borne witness to its lively sympathy for the University of Louvain." This refers to the fact that the University invited certain professors from Louvain to come to teach at Cambridge shortly after their own university had been destroyed by the Germans in 1914, as well as to the share which President Lowell and other Harvard men have had more recently in the work of the International Committee for the restoration of the library...
This argument is founded upon the delusion that every verdant Freshman who enters the gates of Harvard knows just what is best for him, and that he will carry out to the letter this wisely planned schedule for his college career; which is a delightful prospect, but conceived in the clouds. It is hard to believe, with the new departmental examinations, the stress put upon "intellectual responsibility," and the liberal courses offered, that Harvard is fostering the "type" and discouraging "whatsoever things are elevated...
...expense of this new department, outside of apparatus and new facilities, has been estimated by Dr. Lee at $15,000 a year. This item of expense was particularly referred to in President Lowell's recent letter to the heads of the Harvard Endowment Fund Committee, in which he outlined the more pressing of the University's needs...