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...large a number of people living in dormitories, and especially by your Freshman Halls. Here you got something approaching the college system at Oxford: the dormitory is a unit; the proctor system resembles in a manner the English tutorial system. This gives you a certain center which one doesn't get at Toronto...
Some time ago the Harvard Corporation and Board of Overseers appointed a joint committee to select a plan for a permanent memorial to the graduates and undergraduates dead in the war. Apparently the committee can't make up its mind, or doesn't deem it judicious, to do so until it knows more about graduate opinion on the subject. Some of the suggested products are curious. A university chapel, to supplant the present Appleton Chapel, for instance. Appleton Chapel is a monument of the '50s. With no disrespect to its worthy founder, it is one of the bleakest and ugliest...
...most important requisites of a successful photographer is the ability to think quickly and act on the spur of the moment. In many cases the man with the camera has only one chance to photograph what he wants, and if he doesn't act at the right time, he loses the picture. This is true of taking pictures of notables, and in taking action pictures, especially in sports. The man who can take a picture of a football play at the precise time when the play is in its most interesting stage is a valuable asset to the paper...
...several concerts this season it has been touch-and-go between the solo coughers and musicians; the Coughers' Chorus, with symphony accompaniment, has been heard frequently, but without any notable pleasure. And your public cougher doesn't know the use of the soft pedal--he coughs fortissimo and sostenuto. The world will be a far better place to live in if the International Anti-Coughing Union succeeds in its suggested purposes...
Yale owes a vote of thanks to Mr. Donald Ogden Stewart, author of "Chester Merriwell at Yale" published in the current "Vanity Fair". Mr. Stewart suggests that Harvard and Yale have changed places with respect to culture and athletic prowess;--"Yale men discussing literature, Harvard winning football games," "Doesn't that prove that something is wrong with the college?", asks the horrified Yale graduate when he hears from his younger brother, Chester Merriwell, what has happened to his alma mater...