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...worth preserving I am not so sure; but the articles on matters of immediate interest to Harvard men, of which the number is almost wholly made up, are certainly just now very much worth while. They express and stimulate ideas, and this statement is high praise. Dean Castle's answer to Mr. Lippmann's objections to the Freshman dormitory scheme is exactly what we have long been hoping for: a public defence, from a man intimately acquainted with the facts and conditions, of one of the most important and far-reaching changes made by the new administration. Dean Castle...
...here in America, and especially in New York, in nine cases out of ten, one cannot get a civil answer to a civil question. In Europe the reverse is the rule and often mere strangers will go quite out of their way to do what to us would seem an extraordinary act of courtesy...
...closing Mr. Smith defined a polite man as one who would answer a strange lady civilly when she questioned him on the street; a good-mannered man, as one who would take off his hat to her; but a courteous one as one who would go out of his way to see her across the street...
...Professor P. M. Rhinelander '91 will give the last of a series of lectures on "The Sacraments in Theory and Practice," before the St. Paul's Society in the Noble Room of the Phillips Brooks House this evening at 7 o'clock. After the lecture Professor Rhinelander will answer any questions on the subject. All members of the University are cordially invited...
...answer to this opinion it may be said in the first place that any effort within the University, toward securing a swimming pool for Cambridge is not likely to work any harm to the prospects of a pool for Harvard. In fact the reaction resulting from such an effort, is almost sure to count in our favor. A Harvard swimming pool will come with a new gymnasium. And such a building will probably come not from undergraduates but from graduates. Now by planning a Harvard swimming pool in the Cambridge Y. M. C. A., Harvard is going to stir...