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...comment which accompanies the tables is equally pertinent: "Any system that does not leave ample time for thinking (of which the majority of students do far too little), for sports, friendships, and those 'undergraduate activities' which help so much in the development of the well-rounded man, should be condemned; but for all of these and a much higher standard of work there is ample time in the twenty-four hours of the day. The truth is that college students have the lax habit of thinking that college work and engagements should follow, not take precedence of, the pressing engagements...
...subject of class room ventilation has for years received more or less frequent comment and discussion. The value of fresh air and the present inadequate system used in the majority of class rooms (particularly those in Sever Hall) serve to keep the topic before the undergraduate mind...
...appointment of the Co-operative Society as official purchasing agent for the University is worthy of comment. The saving in cost and convenience which this new move should effect is shown by the fact that during the year 1909-10 the different officers and departments of the University used more than eighteen thousand dollars' worth of stationery, and purchased this from no fewer than sixty-seven different stores in Boston and Cambridge...
...another page in a communication is quoted an extract from the "New York Times" of recent date. In this article the conditions at Harvard are misstated. It this were merely an isolated instance of journalistic misrepresentation, it would call for no comment. However, this small news item typifies a large number of similar stories relating to Harvard in the press of the whole country. During the current year, a fiagrant instance of this sort of perversion occurred. A Cleveland paper appeared with the startling announcement that the CRIMSON had accused the football coaches of teaching the men to violate...
...word "certificate" has so often conjured up to the student the idea of a will-o'-the-wisp able in some way to land him in college without any work on his part, that the actual standard of intellectual achievement to be required deserves comment...