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...will be a reception in Brooks House for Freshmen, and a number of graduates and undergraduates will speak. These men are all prominent in University activities of one form or another. Their talks should do much toward explaining to the class of 1914 the duties and opportunities which will confront it in Freshman year. An important element of the reception is the chance offered to those invited of meeting their classmates. The beginning of Freshman year is of all times the easiest in which to make a wide circle of friends. The meeting this evening is the only occasion...
...committee of eleven professors of the University has arranged this series of lectures with the view of initiating an ethical system founded on commonsense and to derive a moral code from it which can be applied to modern politics. By bringing up the vital questions which confront those desirous of bringing about good government they desire to interest college men and enlist their support...
Even persons who do not share this view of a professional aim have often urged that in order to save college education in the conditions that confront us we must reduce its length. May we not feel that the most vital measure for saving the college is not to shorten its duration, but to ensure that it shall be worth saving? Institutions are rarely murdered; they meet their end by suicide. They are not strangled by their natural environment while vigorous: they die because they have outlived their usefulness, or fail to do the work that the world wants done...
...Richardson, Jr., '08 spoke of the problems that now confront the incoming student...
...Phillips Brooks House Association has had to confront and solve certain real problems in fostering the religious life of the University. Generally speaking, however, there has been progress all along the line. No radical changes have occurred, but the policy adopted a few years ago has been not only maintained but broadened and strengthened in various directions...