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...most important results accomplished by the club is seen in the weakening of much of that spirit of snobbishness which was previously so strong, particularly in the classes of the college department and which used to be an element most injurious to class spirit and college loyalty. The members of the club are brought together socially in the fortnightly smokers and by the entertainments given by the Glee, Mask and Wig, and Garrick Clubs in the Auditorium...
...still more needed as a means of centralizing the life of the University. Surely these considerations have weight enough to take precedence over any purely sectional interests, even though they be as deserving of respect as the religious societies undoubtedly are. We do not wish to belittle this element of college life in the least, but with due regard to the fitness of things it seems to us eminently proper that supporters of the Brooks Memorial should take this opportunity of rendering valuable assistance to the general cause. It will be as easy to connect the name of Phillips Brooks...
...difference at all a slight advantage probably rests with the Harvard Square office in general receipts and in money order business. One decided difference, however, exists. At Harvard Square some 1500 or more people call for their mail on Sunday mornings, while at the other office this element is but trifling...
...overtraining of the Harvard team. This was done without consulting with me-the only one who knew what that training had been-apparently unmindful of the many winning Harvard track teams in the past that had received advice from the same source, not considering the element of better men or the great disadvantage a poor track like Yale's was to a team trained and raced all the season on one of the best tracks in the country. The records made in the U. of P. games one week before did not show overtraining, and there was no suggestion...
...forth-coming number of the Monthly opens with a paper from Professor Royce entitled: "Originality and Consciousness," an answer to the question "Why is the best human originality an unconscious product?" Professor Royce analyses "our human type of consciousness" with a view to getting at the originating element in our nature, and comes to the conclusion that it is the subconscious drift of our nature, not "consciousness that, in us men, is the originator." The subject of the symposium, which should have been called "Harvard's attitude toward smaller colleges" must strike the average reader as a rather far fetched...