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...competition for the position of managing-editor will commence next fall and will be open to Sophomores. The competition for advertising manager, which is a remunerative office, will begin tomorrow, and will be open to Freshmen. This will afford an excellent business training and will especially benefit men who have a similar line of work in view after college. All Freshmen who are interested in this work should report to F. P. Magoun, Jr., '16, 60 Mt. Auburn street tomorrow evening at 7 o'clock. No previous experience is necessary...
...very small part of what you will use in after life. "Knowledge will disappear sometime but wisdom will remain. Therefore, in choosing courses greater care should be given to the effect they will have on the quality of the mind rather than to the special training which they will afford...
...peace has been and will be infinitely slow. And when the United States is responsible not only for its own interests, but, through the Monroe Doctrine, for the interests of other nations among a people, disorganized and semi-barbarous, as the Mexicans, war may become inevitable. The Administration can afford a certain amount of ridicule from foreign state departments, if it can avoid war honorably; but it cannot neglect its obligations. If it is forced by these obligations to a war, however unwelcome, however wasteful from a Utopian viewpoint; and requires volunteers to carry on this war, the universities--peace...
Although it is acknowledged that there are good points in the pending legislation, yet, considering the fact that the so-called "trust evil" is far smaller than it was ten years ago, we can well afford to rely wholly on the present laws, and devote the attention of our legislators not to additions thereto, but to the means of more thoroughly carrying them...
...tours through France, which have the approval of President Lowell and members of the French department, are being organized by the France-America Committee for the coming summer. The first of these is for students and aims to afford an enjoyable, and at the same time instructive and useful, vacation. Those who are especially interested in Art, History or Language will find Artists, Archeologists or Professors who will be glad to volunteer their services as guides or interlocutors. The Office National des Universities, which is a department of the Ministry of Public Instruction, will introduce the party to the University...