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...College. Captain Lawless, who, on account of sickness, was unable to run in last year's intercollegiate race, seems to be in the best of condition and should prove to be even better than he was in the race against Yale last fall when his work received very favorable comment by press and critics...
When the 1911 Photograph Committee requested Dean Wells to comment on the result of their work they felt with proper justification, as was admitted by all Harvard men, that their album was more than the ordinary annual improvement over its predecessors, and that it would not be easily surpassed in excellence. Happily, however, Mr. Blackall, chairman of the 1912 committee, et al., have appreciated their commission and have not missed the opportunity to be ranked as the most efficient and successful editors in twenty-three years...
...clear that the other side should have its say. Mr. Moderwell takes up the cudgels for democracy, and plies them with no little skill and force. The preaching on either side is of the sort which will comfort most those who are already converted. The Monthly's own editorial comment on the opposing discourses suggests the really significant thing about them: "is it no inconsiderable achievement for an undergraduate to have a social ideal and to take the trouble of giving it tangible expression...
...first great accomplishment of the Roosevelt administration was the establishment of the department of commerce and labor, a step which created at the time much unfavorable comment, but which has already demonstrated its worth and beneficence. Following this came the great railroad legislation of 1906, and then the laws for the conservation of the nation's resources, protecting the country against the timber thieves and the mineral operators. But greater than any of these was the canal legislation, the realization of an aspiration of the American people hundreds of years old. Theodore Roosevelt was the man who got these measures...
...attempt to do in the future, will find therein an excellent synopsis of advancement during 1910-11 as well as the foreshadowing of one or two changes to come. Aside from a report of progress along lines already laid down, we notice four points well worthy of comment...