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Many people dislike a formal creed, but a creed of some sort is necessary even to the atheist or the agnostic. The question is merely whether one should express his belief in his own individual way, or should adopt the thought and phrasing which have endured for ages...
...decided that the class adopt last year's scheme of charging each man seventy-five cents for dues. A Red Book will be published this year as in the past, and the committee to manage it will be appointed later...
Last evening the class of 1915 held its first regular meeting. Over 450 members turned out to discuss and finally adopt a suggestion from the Executive Committee of the Student Council, which we believe should recommend itself to anyone at all familiar with the history of class elections at Harvard, and especially to those familiar with Freshman class elections...
...never been possible for Harvard to adopt the plan of class segregation which at Yale has been the chief means of building up a deep and inclusive college spirit such as Harvard--at least since the time of its recent tremendous growth--has not known. President Lowell has two plans for bringing about College unity which will have distinct advantages over the Yale scheme. The first of these is Freshman dormitories; the second is the thing for which the class of 1913 is now responsible--the Senior dormitories...
When in the course of local or state politics there has been a campaign to elect a peculiarly public-spirited citizen, or adopt a measure which would further the cause of good government, Harvard students have come forward pretty regularly and in good numbers to help. At the Boston city election tomorrow there will be a fight to keep the administration of the school system out of politics. It is only to repeat one of the first principles of good government to say that in the administration of public schools there can be no Democratic method or no Republican method...