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...coming fortnight will test Harvard's strength to the limit, and with Burr out of the line-up it will be doubly hard. It is hoped that he will be able to play the Yale game, at least for part of the game, but the immediate question is to develop a guard and a man who can hope to hold his own against good punters until then...
...uncommonly held as to the function of the committee in charge. The committee's purpose is not to do the work itself--that would be easy and unprogressive--but to interest as many men as possible in the problem of helping along their less fortunate brothers and to develop an enthusiasm for these beneficial and organized movements which are working for the betterment of society...
...cases of sudden change of rule, the people must go through a period of tutelage, for they cannot be expected to be transformed from a state of absolute subjection to entire self-government at a single step. We try to develop the individual unit, to educate and civilize the people according to western ideas of civilization, and in the end to leave them absolutely self-governing. What the Philippine Islands need, is not new laws, not financial assistance, not a change of policy, but merely the removal of all tariffs. Up to the present time all administration has been along...
...times. With its unsurpassed equipment in the hands of the present dean, whose age places him with the younger generation of doctors, unhampered by traditions of an older teaching, the Medical School should be able to maintain a place in the front rank of modern medical science and develop to the utmost its splendid endowment...
...plan as a whole sounds feasible and should succeed if the committee accept their small responsibility with eagerness to carry it out. Eventually, it might well develop into a system of Senior Advisers for Freshmen, similar in a way to the Faculty Advisers and designed to supplement their efforts. It is at any rate well worth trial...