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...Union will be open to all contestants after 11 o'clock this morning and there will be some one there to answer questions. Luncheon, at 50 cents, will be served for those who wish it. After the meet, at 5.30 o'clock, a dinner will be given the competitors in the Assembly Room of the Union. H. L. Gaddis '12 will preside and speeches will be made by R. T. Fisher '12, R. C. Floyd '11, R. C. Foster '11, and L. Withington, Jr., '11. At the dinner W. F. Garcelon L.'95 will present the medals to the point...
...lack of knowledge is due to simple neglect, it should be corrected. Every intelligent person should be acquainted with the Bible; every cultivated man should be interested in it. The difficulty seems to lie in the question, whether the study of the Bible can be separated from religion. To answer in the affirmative seems like stating a paradox. This fact, however, seems clear: that religion may be left in the background, with the idea of literature in the front. As literature the Bible has an almost universal appeal. Bible classes are not crowded, because every man feels that here...
...stimulus to better College work. The whole question, then, resolves itself into this simple form; is not the sacrifice of enduring a certain amount of unjust criticism a cheap price to pay for a very considerable elevation of the academic standard? To our minds there can be but one answer...
...current number of the Advocate irresistibly suggests a conundrum asking the reason for its likeness to the Collection of Western Art in the Boston Museum. The answer is obvious; each contains one work of marked excellence relieved against productions of more or less ordinary merit. The extraordinary object in the Boston Museum is the Greek throne; the thing of distinction in the Advocate is Mr. Alken's poem...
...Spreckels, of San Francisco, and a millionaire in his own name. Shortly after coming of age, he became interested in the gas company of San Francisco. Upon looking into its affairs, he found it corrupt in its relations with the city council and its own shareholders. The latter in answer to an appeal from Mr. Spreckels, threw out the old board of directors and elected his reform ticket. As president of the First National Bank of San Francisco, he saw and studied finance and politics from the inside...