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...great many men in Harvard College as they approach graduation are considering what profession they shall adopt, and upon a correct answer in each case depends a man's future. Some doubtless would like to know what the law offers...
...Milne, editor of "Punch" and author of "Mr. Pun Passes By", will be the second of the trio. "Robert Crashaw", a dignified member of Parliament, played by F. DeN. Schroeder '24, is unexpectedly left a large sum of money, but under the condition that he should adopt the name "Wurzel-Flummery". To complicate matters his rival in Parliament, "Richard Meriton", played by R. T. Pell '24 is left an equal sum and under equal conditions. Miss Dorothy Somerset '21 of Radcliffe, as "Viola Crashaw", provides a happy solution to the problem...
...college education is a most attractive one. At present, parents have to plan on paying the cost of such training out of current income, unless they set aside a definite sum each year to be sunk bodily when the time comes. Often, when it is too late to adopt the latter course, the head of the house discovers that he can no longer count on being able to employ the former. Above all, either expedient is beyond the means of many people who, like the author of the letter to the "Tribune", are "of limited means...
Search in the past for a source for the motto used on the Harvard seal has been without avail. But according to a paper recently read before the Colonial Society in Boston there are two incidents which might have inspired Harvard men to adopt the phrase "Christo et Ecclesiae." The first possible influence came from a Dutch academy, the University of Franeker established in 1585. Here, during the first half century of its existence, the words "Christo et Ecclesia" were used at its dedication, in its first law of government, as its coat-of-arms, in an indictment...
...Appointment Office can recommend none but experienced teachers. On the other hand, men of good personal quality who are likely to get on with schoolboys are not infrequently employed in boarding schools, even if they have had no experience in teaching; and some of these men are led to adopt teaching as their profession. Sincerely yours, L. B. R. BRIGGS 11 University Hall...