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...hundred nights at the Empire, New York, all summer in Chicago, and for quite a season in London. "Sowing the Wind" is said to be the best play Sydney Grundy has yet written. Its plot is simple and unhampered by extraneous incident. Its development is direct and logical and its treatment is original. The language is full of grace and precision and the author has handled a necessarily dangerous subject with delicacy and finesse, yet with distinctness and force that unite to give great strength. For this play Mr. Charles Frohman sent to the Columbia a specially selected company headed...
Every member of Ninety-eight who is at all interested in debating should not fail to attend tonight's meeting for the formation of a freshman union. Aside from the direct pleasure and benefit to be derived from membership in such a union, there will always be open the possibility of participation in the Harvard - Yale debates, which for the past few years have attracted the attention of the college world. So far Harvard has been invariably successful in these debates. The formation of a freshman society should be an aid to those whose task is to keep the record...
More applications for information about the summer courses have been received this year than in any previous year. But as no direct application to take the courses is required, it cannot be positively said how many men will be here. Men are always assisted in finding rooms by the committee in charge of the Summer School, and the Foxcroft Club is kept open during the summer when it is run on a somewhat higher scale than in winter. The price of room and board will probably run from five to ten dollars a week...
...members of the Faculty offer to President Eliot their congratulations on the completion of this long period of noble and devoted service. We add to those congratulations the expression of our earnest hope that he may continue to direct the destinies of Harvard for many years to come; and that these years may be as honorable, brilliant, and fortunate as those which have passed, bringing their abundant rewards, in the growing dignity and usefulness of the University, and in every happiness of private life...
...Legislation would be greatly benefitted. (a) By the direct oral questioning of the Cabinet, resulting in fuller knowledge of the acts of the administration. (b) By the right of Cabinet members to speak and introduce bills, resulting in (1) less loss of time at the beginning of Congress, (2) precedence being given to important business, (3) greater continuity of legislation, (4) broader and less sectional legislation, and (5) a better understanding of the proposed measure by Congress and the country...