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...editorials of the Advocate which appears today ought to command the attention of all college men. The narrowness of the board walks and the misdemeanors of the freshmen in English A are unfortunate realities, but they are not new; the ungentlemanly behavior of certain men in the University chapel, however, is amore recent developement, and one which the Advocate does well to suggest should be promptly checked...
Special attention is called to the explanation of certain tests of quickness which are now being made by Dr. Fitz at the Physiological Laboratory. It may not appear at first thought that these tests have anything about them which is connected with education, physical or mental. Yet they are being made with a view to making clear the relation of physical training to the development of quick and accurate motions and of well balanced bodies. The idea is to find out by comparison what sorts of exercise demand as a pre-requisite the most accurate mental aim and the quickest...
...particularly gratifying for it shows that the skeptics and conservatives all over the country who have looked with grave concern on Harvard's elective system and noncompulsory attendance at chapel are beginning to see that these are steps in advance. Moreover, it shows that Harvard's defeats in certain branches of athletics have not done her the injury that many people feared they might. We do not publish these facts with any undue elation at the discovery; we simply believe them surprising and significant and well worth the consideration of Harvard men, graduate and undergraduate, as indicating a state...
...Certain art fads-impressionism, realism...
...decorations are delicately fresh and have a certain sparkling charm of which early artists were utterly ignorant. His handling is wonderful, robust and healthful, while the clearness and sharpness in his outlines give a competent appearance to his work which is essentially modern...