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...Daily Princetonian" created a flurry in the world of colleges by proposing higher tuition fees for the rich than for the poor. The stir was so great, in fact, that the "New York Times" saw fit to comment on the plan editorially. What the "Princetonian" said in effect was this: the present tuition fee comes nowhere near meeting the actual cost to the college of a student's education. It is unwise, however, to raise the fee for all, because a larger fee would keep away the poor. But there is no reason why the rich should share the benefit...
...college which defeated the Blue on the 26th. Shall such doings be suffered to continue in this character-building institution, this "fair Harvard"? Obtaining synthetic gin is no longer so difficult and clever a feat that those who accomplish it need show to the outside world how enlivening an effect gin has. No longer is it a truly remarkable achievement to get enough wine for boisterous merriment. Drunkard ness among students, while pitiable, is not a condition which is altered by weeping or preaching. As long as the attitude of the student body is one of making merry over sometimes...
...Witches' Mountain" is a three-act "gaucho" drama laid on the wild slopes of the Andes. The action is for the most part fast and vigorous, and the play is colorful and strong in dramatic effect, depicting the self-reliant spirit of the gaucho. The plot concerns the scheming and planning of three ranchmen to obtain the love of Inda, the daughter of a fellow ranchman. The story gradually increases in intensity until it has worked up to a powerful climax...
...David Gordon Lyon S.T.D. '01, professor at the University for nearly forty years will retire next summer from the Hancock professorship of Hebrew and other Oriental languages. He has been appointed professor emeritus by the Governing Boards of the University, the appointment to take effect September...
This is another indication that means for becoming acquainted with the faculty are carefully provided at Harvard. The statements so often repeated by the small college enthusiast to the effect that in large institutions the student does not come into close contact with those who are charged with educating him may be true as far as the larger courses are concerned, but little further. If a student does not meet his professor in a non-academic way, it is his own fault. Faculty members set aside particular times to see men, in addition stating that they are always glad...