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...moon last night making observations and photographs of the various phenomens. The photographic work was directed toward the discovery of any satellites to the mirror which may possibly exist. It will probably be some days before the observers will be able to compute the measurements taken last night and assert their full significance...
...Stebbins says in his preface, "One would not claim for the poems here presented the depth of a Browning nor the metrical perfection of a Tennyson; but one can assert with reason that they are worthy of the attention of thoughtful readers." Nor is it too much to say that all the poems in the volume have considerable merit, and that the majority of them are decidedly better than the verses printed in the present-day magazines. It ought to be a matter of satisfaction and pride that they are the work of Harvard...
...adoption of uniform examinations at Harvard and indeed, elsewhere. Each college has its own intellectual ideals, and it is best for every college for its own sake and for the sake of the general cause of education to maintain those ideals separate and distinct. While I shall not assert that the Harvard requirements are better than those of all other colleges. I do believe them to be best for the particular kind of training the University aims to give, and I believe they should be uncompromised. Furthermore, examinations based on those of the average college would be utterly different...
...however unwise the course may be, it must make that territory a part of itself. It assuredly was not the intention of the Constitution's makers thus to render the United States unable to exercise the ordinary incidents of the power to make treaties and declare war. If we assert this principle in the face of our present problems we put a construction upon the Constitution not only fallacious but certain to work the most disastrous results in the future. We might thus argue from the point of view of the United States, but we prefer to lay special stress...
...Harvard-Yale debate is now little more than a month distant and the announcement of the trial debate for the choice of Harvard's representatives reminds us forcibly that this year it is of the utmost importance for the University to assert her old supremacy in debating. It is hard to admit, but granted it must be, that for the past two years Harvard has made but little progress in debate in comparison with her rivals. It may be that we reached a climax beyond which it is difficult to go, several years since, and that the other colleges, where...