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...Another element of the recently completed program is the tendency towards non-decision debates. No winner was declared in half of the debates Harvard entered this year. This policy is to be in use even more next year. Certainly the position of debating can only be lessened when the interest and incentive of competition is removed...
...Advocate erects this new symbol of her success, one hopes that her progress is of an un-mixed nature. Should expansion necessitate further extension of the club element in what is essentially an all-Harvard enterprise, no number of new buildings would be compensation. An ambitious building program might easily lead to a situation that would limit the scope and possibilities of the Advocate as an organ of student literary expression. New quarters to meet the needs of the day are not only desirable but necessary, but these quarters should definitely remain those of a publication and an over emphasis...
...financial aid from friends of the University it would appear that the present unfortunate state of affairs is to be brought to an end. While one is glad to note that efforts to raise the necessary funds for the new laboratory are progressing favorably, there is also an element of wonder that plans which are not new should be made public only at this time...
Indeed, as far as the theory that U. S. youth is going Over the Hill to the Poorhouse is concerned, tobacco men feel that the woman smoker has become an accepted element in the contemporary U. S. scene, and that abstinence from sweets is dictated not by the Lucky campaign but by present fashion...
...with no little satisfaction that one learns that the University intends itself to compensate the losses potentially undergone by the grantees of the fund. There need be as yet no timbrels and harps resounding for the recovery of the personal element in mechanically-directed Harvard; still, the employment of some of the famed $100,000,000 in this very direct way is pleasing. Though there continues to be discussion about the salaries of active professors, the policy of the University in regard to its great men of old must be approved...