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...then went on to point out the vast possibilities of the northwestern part of the country. Certain measures must be taken to develop this region, such as more thorough cultivation, less extravagance, and better transportation facilities. The railroads have succeeded in this country by close attention to problems of traffic and by the utilization of the materials at their disposal. There is, however, great room for economy in the existing methods. It is only by careful management that the railroads can take care of the growing West. In order to do this, extravagance and waste must be cut down...
...justified itself in any very marked degree: for it has in most cases fostered only acquaintances, whereas community of interest gives rise to friendships. There is nothing very snobbish about finding one man more congenial than another; and rooming in the same entry with a man implies a certain degree of intimacy. It is not to a man's credit if at the end of Junior year he ceases to make friends; but he surely has a right by that time to prefer as sharers of his entry those men whom he knows to be congenial, rather than the same...
Competitive debating is not so far removed from work done in certain English and public speaking courses and in the College debating society, that undergraduates may not aspire with confidence to try for places on the University teams. The fact that in past years these teams have been so largely made up of men from the Law School indicates that either the interest or the ability necessary for successful competition is wanting in the College. Our debating teams would be more truly representative, and would better fulfill the spirit of intercollegiate debating, if the majority of their members were undergraduates...
...unfair work becomes exceedingly vague, because without copying a report a man may write his own on the basis of another's work, without doing it himself. Much criticism is now being heard concerning the quantity of theses which must be written, but these, at least, demand a certain amount of protracted thought, which is far more than can be said of the reports...
...KING'S CHAPEL LECTURES. "Certain Readjustments between the Church and the Community Required by Recent Theological and Social Changes." Professor A. P. Fitch. King's Chapel, Boston...