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Robert Frost, author of "North of Boston" and "A Boy's Way" will be the guest of the Poetry Society at a meeting to be held in the Advocate Sanotum on the third floor of the Union tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock. Mr. Frost will read from his works. He is known as one of the best of the younger American poets, his work having been highly praised both in England and America. This is the first of a series of readings and talks to be given under the auspices of the society by prominent poets and critics...
...frightened into instant action by Advocate admonitions the undergraduate should go to sleep tonight and wake up tomorrow with a precise plan of procedure in life. The call of duty, they tell us, is not blasted into our ears at dawn on our twenty-first birthday. There was a boy who kept awake in his bed on the night before his twenty-first birthday until one minute past twelve, when, leaping from his covers, he startled the household by rushing through the dwelling and shouting at the top of his lungs: "There's a man in the house!" We shall...
...Passos presents us with two stories, a slam at the proverbial American abroad, not at all pleasant, and the history of a school boy's study hour. The latter pleases better, partly because it contains more of the author's delightful description, partly because of the ephemeral subject, which suits...
...addition to the above many other opportunities are still open for leaders of boys' clubs. Boy Scout leaders, and teachers of English and other classes. All men interested are asked to see the Social Service secretary at Phillips Brooks House any morning except Saturday between 8 and 11 o'clock...
...voices a strong protest against the elective system which is now so familiar to us. "Universities were invented," says the author of this article, "for the sake of bringing their fortunate students into contact with the precious lore of the world, there garnered and kept pure." Nowadays, "if a boy does not feel a pre-established harmony between his soul and the humanities, then give him an academic degree on something with which his soul will be in pre-established harmony. And if there is no pre-established harmony between his soul and any form of learning, then create institutions...