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...Freshman debate with Yale 1912 has been provisionally arranged for Friday, April 30. The debate will be held in Cambridge. The question that has been submitted by Harvard is: "Resolved, That United States senators should be elected by a direct vote of the people." The Yale freshmen will have the choice of sides...
Last year Mr. Haughton served without compensation, direct or indirect. The Football Committee was of course most anxious that Mr. Haughton should again coach, but to do so necessarily involves such a sacrifice of the time and energy which would otherwise be devoted to his own business advancement that he was long doubtful whether he could undertake it. So far as money compensation would offset this sacrifice, the Football Committee was willing to recommend that he be well paid if he so desired...
...Quinn and W. F. Donovan have been re-engaged by the Athletic Association as trainers and coaches of University teams until July 1, 1911. Either will act as coach or trainer to whatever team the Graduate Manager of Athletics shall direct...
...rest of the contents are of good average quality--for candidates. One story, "The End of the Quest," by S. Bowles, Jr., is the kind of tale for which the Advocate was long famous, direct, virile, and with an ending. The tendency towards melodrama one forgives for the sake of the actual interest. Two of the others belong also to well-recognized types: "Jack's Affair with his Conscience" recalling a familiar episode in Mr. Flandreau's book, and "A Symphony in D-Minor" being a variation on the familiar theme of Mr. Owen Wister's "Philosophy 4." The fantastic...
...rest. So also the second, due perhaps to "cutting," seems not yet to have struck the right balance between the stories of Hartwell, the leader of his people, and Hartwell, the lover of a Christian. But the third and fourth acts bring the play to an eloquent and direct intensity which holds until...