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...whom it may concern...
When a business concern finds itself in financial difficulties which would disappear if its actual condition were consistent wish its books, its directors generally put their shoulders to the wheel and bring about a consistency. But when the Harvard University Register shows an actual deficit of a thousand dollars, none but its immediate managers seem to be concerned. The Student Council, which directs its publication, and the Harvard undergraduates, whom we might consider stockholders since they are the beneficients, take no apparent interest in the matter. If the Student Council members would realize their responsibility and if the undergraduates would...
...college men at the Northfield Conferences, at Yale, at Princeton, and at other colleges. His wide knowledge of social conditions, his sincerity, and enthusiasm have brought him fame and popularity as a lecturer. In modern life no social conditions are so menacing and perplexing, so much a matter of concern to college men, as those due to the complexity of crime and graft in the life of large cities. Therefore, we welcome Mr. Bates who comes to tell us what he has learned in a lifetime devoted to the unselfish and sympathetic study of these conditions in the "underworld...
...University Forum to be held this evening in the Union should be exceedingly well attended, for the questions to be discussed concern the entire student body. As remarked by President Lowell in his recent report, the thing most needed under our athletic system is regular and healthy exercise for the mass of students. Nobody knows better than the students themselves what is necessary to encourage them to indulge in necessary athletic recreation, and the discussion this evening should call forth some interesting proposals as to the means to accomplish this. Another question that has been before the College community...
...Medical School, which reads like the Catalogue and is not especially timely. The account of our vanished library by Mr. Grinder is substantial, though it fails to tell as who Gore was, and calls Dr. Thaddeus W. Harris an etymologist instead of an entomologist. Other articles "of record" concern the Harvard Cadet Corps and our foreign language societies. The inference of the Illustrated in exercised by pertinent editorial articles and contributions, such as in this number discuss the Union, hockey, the free medical Lectures, intimations and the like--all sane rather than convincing. Professor Van Dyke contributes a few graceful...