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Just as the great complex of misunderstandings and confusion so tragically developed in the story of Hamlet could not proceed but by a series of misfortunes and could end only in an avalanche of disaster, so it has seemed with Ireland. As an historian said of the British Isles in the thirteenth century "Wales was conquered, Scotland unconquered, Ireland half-conquered". With the anomalous situation growing out of this half conquest it is safe to say that the Irish problem began, and like the play it has become, through differences of temperament, recrimination, abuse of power; muddy thinking, stubbornness...
Harvard, to use a shop-worn phrase, is not a school for irresponsible boys, but a University. Correction and discipline there must be; but at the same time there should also be an understanding and appreciation of undergraduate difficulties, especially those of the men to whom the University's complex rules and institutions are a comparatively unknown quantity. A word of friendly advice offered in time is worth more in building up individual effort and interest than many years of probation and "E"s.- provided, of course, that men can be found with the time and inclination to give...
...meeting yesterday afternoon of the Mathematics Club, Mr. A. J. Cook, who is an instructor in the Mathematics Department, spoke on "The Complex Elements of Space". Refreshments were served after the meeting...
...meeting of the Mathematics Club tonight at 4.30 o'clock in Sever 20, Mr. A. J. Cook, who is an instructor in the Mathematics Department, will speak on "The Complex Elements of Space." After the meeting refreshments will be served. All students of Mathematics are invited...
What is a monitor, and why? This question on an intelligence test would bring forth as great a variety of answers as the famous John Hancock riddle. To the College Office, he is merely a bit of machinery in a complex system, like the time-clock of a business establishment. To the individual in the course, he represents the frailties of the human flesh, to be plied with the wine of excuse and entreaty until his will is bent to the individual's purpose. The storm of hard-luck stories and heart-appeals that daily besiege a monitor...