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According to a recent issue of the Alumni Bulletin, there is a bill before the Massachusetts Legislature providing that the state law controlling the election of Overseers be amended,--to the effect that the Governing Boards hereafter have the power to change such elections as they deem necessary. This bill is the result of a long agitation in favor of the election of the Overseers by postal ballot. Under the present system, candidates are suggested by a committee of the Alumni Association. These names are then nominated by postal service and are finally voted upon at Commencement by those alumni...
...come here because of proximity or tradition and are little influenced by the further representations of men in college. With a view to extending the work of the school club to preparatory institutions where Harvard traditions are not of the strongest, the Student Council should immediately take measures to effect their establishment on an influential basis...
...plea of confession and avoidance must be entered at the beginning, to the effect that outside the paper industry we have nothing to contribute beyond a few snap-shots of the surface of German life at this time. The time was short and well-filled, and out general impressions were of necessity wholly superficial...
...Since 1916 there has been a rapid growth of compulsory physical training in the public schools of the country. In eighteen states such training is required in some form, and in other states legislation to this effect has been contemplated. Yet the facilities for teaching men and women how to give this training are extremely limited. The University is doing its best to meet this definite need...
...Christian Science regards as real only that which can be attributed to God, the only real cause, precluding any effect from any other cause. Evil, discord, sin and disease have no relation with God or his perfect creation, hence are unreal. All mankind, striving to be rid of evil, instinctively repudiates it in their thought as being unnatural, hence in the last analysis unreal. Though very real to the material sense, sin, sickness and discord, judged in the light of the spiritual sense of being which overrules and transcends material sense, are seen to be false claims about true life...