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...correspondent in a communication published in this issue, comments upon the action taken by the Conference Committee at its last meeting. This dissatisfaction is due to two causes, partly to the inaction of the Conference Committee in the first two meetings, but mainly to an extravagant expectation, on the part of the students, in keeping with neither common sense nor the nature of the Conference...
...true that the resolutions passed at the last meeting might have been passed at the meeting before. This in action deserved censure, but it by no means justifies the extreme stand taken by our correspondent. The communication is based on several misapprehensions. In the first place the conference has not concluded the discussion of the marking system. The conference, again, was not organized "to tell us, after three months of discussion, that the present marking system is unjust," nor were the resolutions passed designed to tell the students anything. They were intended to tell the faculty something, and this...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - Now that the Conference Committee has ended its consideration of the marking system, the question may fairly be asked, how far it has fulfilled its purposes; to what extent it has satisfied student expectation. We see that much criticism of its non action has been ill-timed, when we recognize the difficulties connected with the subject with which it has to deal. Before any conclusion leading to an improvement of our status could be arrived at, much time necessarily was consumed. Hasty action would have been very undesirable. But we did expect the committee, taking...
...night we shall discuss digestion and in turn take up the various factors in this very important process." Saliva, the first factor, has a mechanical action, by penetrating all through the food in the mouth, it makes the work of grinding it up by the teeth much more easy. It is an alkaline fluid, and has the property of changing starch into sugar. Mr. Huxley's model man would eat 12 oz. of bread and 6 oz. of potatoes every twenty-four hours...
Princeton and Yale both cordially welcome Harvard back again into the foot-ball league. The Princetonian and News express almost as much satisfaction with the recent action of our faculty as characterizes the most jubilant Harvardian. These courteous greetings are expressive of a generous rivalry that speaks well for the contest next fall...