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...editorial in Friday's CRIMSON in regard to the slow building of the addition to the Gymnasium was certainly much needed. There is not a business or manufacturing concern in the United States which would allow such dilatory work; one of the largest and most expensive manufactories in the United States has been completed and put in operation during the time the work on this wing to the Gymnasium has been going on. Perhaps the inconvenience to the students would be no argument, but their health should...
...make of the response to the appeal for improvements at the post office,- for nearly a thousand names have been signed to the petition already,- we wish to emphasize a point about which there still seems to be doubt in some quarters, namely as to why University men should concern themselves with a movement like this. They get their mail regularly, so far as they know; what business is it of theirs, they ask, if the government is remiss in the care of its employes, or in any other respect...
...comment of ours should be required to convince any one of the necessity for immediate action on the part of the authorities at Washington. The question which will probably come to the minds of most men will probably be as to just why members of the University should concern themselves with something in which, as they think, the citizens of Cambridge should naturally be more interested. The reason, as has been pointed out in another column, is that the University, besides including a large proportion of the patrons of the post office, makes large demands upon it which...
...will hold a joint meeting in the Fogg Art Museum to set before the students, and especially the new students, the advantages, needs, aims and claims of religious and philanthropic work in and around the University. Feeling that the work in which they are interested is of the greatest concern, not only to the University itself, but also to the community in which it is placed, they have asked men of influence and eminence to make the work known to the students. President Eliot will preside at the meeting and addresses will be made by President Eliot, Professor Peabody...
...number of students taking the various scientific and engineering courses is seen to be increasing faster than the number taking the classical courses. Some new instructors have been added in all the departments. This fall the Princeton Proparatory School, which since its foundation has been conducted as a private concern has come into closer relations to the university and will in the future be conducted by a board of trustees all of whom are Princeton alumni. The instruction in the class rooms will be under the oversight of professors of the university. The interclass baseball series were played last week...