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...matters of this kind a far sighted policy is always the best one to adopt and it would not be for sighted to allow the "Med. Fac." to continue. To quote a New York writer who has lately commented on the matter in the Transcript under the title of "Americas Juventutis:" "The 'Med. Fac.' is seldom funny any more. It is outgrown and nowadays simply stirs up decent lads to do things that they are adapt to be ashamed of at the time and pretty sure to be ashamed of later." The mere fact that as this same writer also...
...former years tickets for the Yale debate have been sold at various places in Cambridge and Boston, and members of the University have had no preference over the general public in securing seats. This year the University Debating Council has decided to adopt the system which has been tried with marked success at Yale and Princeton...
...meeting of the track squad was held in the Game Room of the Union last night at which Mr. Lathrop outlined the work of the season and explained the system of training which he wishes the men to adopt. He pointed out that it is of the utmost importance for every man to have individual coaching, but that this will be impossible if nearly the whole squad reports as heretofore in the afternoon. Regular times at which each squad is to report have therefore been arranged as follows: from 10 to 11, beginners in the weight events; from...
...squash courts on the top of the building are finished, as are also the twenty new bed rooms, which are one of the most important features of the new club. They are intended primarily for non-resident members, and are to be furnished by graduate classes. Each class will adopt one room as, in a sense, its own, placing its class number on the door and class photographs and other memorabilia in the interior. All the rooms have been already taken in this way by different classes...
...reference to what Harvard is now doing in applied science, however, President Eliot makes it apparent that Harvard has no intention whatever of abandoning that field of education; and the inference may be drawn that, whatever the outcome of the negotiations with the Institute may be, Harvard will adopt no plan which can be construed as anything but a larger and better provision for the fulfillment of her present truest...