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...these days of constantly shifting opinion, when the one thing our statesmen, politicians, and publicists seem certain of is that they cannot tell what the morrow will bring forth when we turn in vain to our journals of considered comment for any solution of the welter about us, it is with something of relief that we pick up a magazine which may be fairly taken to represent the opinions of such a body of citizens as the graduates of Harvard University. Surely here, if anywhere, we may expect to find sanity and an enlightened conservatism. And we are not disappointed...
...attain "that willing suspension of disbelief which is the essence of poetic faith" if, upon opening a book, one finds flung in his face marginal comment after marginal comment, like so many name plates...
...affords a means of testing a student's comprehensive knowledge and showing him his weakness in that particular line of work. As the examination system is carried on now, however, a great part of this aim is lost. Merely the marks received in an examination are announced with no comment on the individual's work; his errors are not pointed out; and the reasons for the mark, which every man has a right to know on his own paper, remain unknown...
...Hoover League wished to submit this editorial to the CRIMSON in the form of a comment or communication, but, as space did not permit the CRIMSON to print it, the League has had it published in this form for circulation...
...entrance of the Harvard Magazine into University life was the occasion for excited comment, it must be granted that its passing is a peaceful one. A permanent place in undergraduate affairs could only have been attained by it had the Advocate continued its war-time decline. But that was not to be. With the opening of the new College year Mother Advocate set her house in order and established herself more firmly than ever in our midst while the sudden splash of the Magazine's entrance into Harvard's literary pond was forgotten as its more conservative ripples appeared...