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Harvard is certainly to be congratulated upon the prospect of an international track meet to be held in the Stadium this summer. Although comparatively few Harvard men will be in Cambridge to witness the games, it is very flattering to know that Harvard is growing to be the centre for intercollegiate track athletics. It is difficult to say whether the increased interest in track athletics is the cause or the effect of this centering tendency which has brought the Intercollegiate Meet to Cambridge again this year. Certain it is, however, that the additional stimulus which large meets give will...
...accepted positions the accompanying duties of which they never intended to fulfil faithfully or have subsequently shirked. It is very pleasant to be known as the president or secretary of this or that organization, but it is an honor which should be paid for, if not bought, by a certain amount of effective work. For anyone to receive office with bored indifference or with the knowledge that he has neither the time nor inclination to fulfil its duties, is too plain a mistake to need comment. And yet this sort of mistake is made many times each year. We refer...
...current number of the Monthly contains a harsh editorial comment on the young instructor at Harvard--a somewhat exaggerated statement, written from a not altogether unbiased point of view. After discussing the absurd position in which certain Seniors have been placed by appointment to positions as assistants in courses where they must correct the work of their own classmates, the editorial proceeds to discredit the entire system of employing men but recently graduated, as instructors in undergraduate courses. Such "a man," says the editorial, "who goes directly from his undergraduate work here into the work of teaching other Harvard undergraduates...
...statement appeared in certain newspapers yesterday that a challenge had been sent to Oxford and Cambridge for a track meet with Harvard and Yale. This so-called "challenge" was merely an informal letter from the managers of the Harvard and Yale track teams to the manager of the Oxford-Cambridge team, requesting his opinion upon the possibility of arranging such a meet. In case a favorable reply is received, it is probable that a challenge will be sent...
...have the same ideals, the same aims, and the same ambitions that you have, as Professor Lowell indicated in his recent lecture at Yale. The greatest foe to our friendship is the newspaper reporter, and we at Yale have learned not to believe any of the stories published in certain Boston papers...