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...another column the CRIMSON prints this morning an expression of opinion from the Federated Clubs and a communication from a member of that organization. The only possible argument for following the advice there given is to obtain a better constitution; and this is utterly improbable, as the present document has been considered and approved by entirely representative undergraduates as well as by President Lowell and Dean Wells. An almost insurmountable reason for disregarding the action of the Federated Clubs is that the plan suggested would confuse and disorganize the whole movement now on foot, and delay by ten days...
...this class that the promoters of rowdyism at Memorial belong. The demonstrations are offensive to the vast majority of those present, for most men like to have their meals in quiet. If in the Communication printed in another column, the responsibility is justly attributed to the Freshmen, the sooner they learn that blatant noise is not admired at Harvard, the better it will be for them and for the University. If it is upperclassmen who misbehave, all that can be said is that they are old enough to know that such disturbances are useless, destructive, undignified and offensive...
...communication printed in another column, fault is found with a system of grading graduates and undergraduates by different standards, as was suggested in the CRIMSON last Thursday. The crux of the matter lies in the question of whether marking shall be done upon attainment or progress. To the CRIMSON the latter alternative seems the more just, in that the preliminary knowledge of a graduate is always greater than that of the younger members of a course in the group "For Undergraduates and Graduates...
...Auburn street, and a miscellaneous eight. Randolph and Mt. Auburn street, from the Weld and Newell boathouses respectively, seemed to have crews made up of the best material. All candidates should report today at the boathouse from where they rowed Yesterday at the times announced in the notice column...
Coach Haughton's exposition of the new football rules, published in another column this morning, gives an expert opinion of what these changes will accomplish. From Mr. Haughton's wide experience it may be expected that the general differences he predicts will be found to a greater or less degree in the play of practically all the college teams. Especial interest, however, attaches itself to the varying methods in which the details of the game will be adapted by different coaches to the new regulations. The prominent part which Coach Haughton played in framing these rules, together with his former...