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...last meeting of the Corporation it was voted to accept a gift of $24,782, contributed by 74 persons, many of them graduates of the University, to establish a fellowship in memory of Victor Emmanuel Chapman '13, to be known as the Victor Emmanuel Chapman Memorial Fellowship...
...team has been bewailed. At present the graduate committee are fully awake to the disheartening condition and are carefully investigating the reasons for the existing apathy. Much is needed before track at Harvard can be put on a firm, successful basis. Undoubtedly the two committees now at work will establish a real system for directing in a business like way the activities of the track team. The best of systems is merely a skeleton and must be supplemented with good administrators and eager workers. Today the yearly competition for the managers begins. Without good directors, men who are alive...
...been for generations, and does not bid to change for generations yet to come. What is more, it makes no pretenses at democracy. The Freshman Dormitories, designed to combat the rampant spirit of caste, has done no small amount of good, but they have failed to establish any democracy--within even a single class. Harvard alumni winced at the publication of Mr. Flandrau's book, "Harvard Episodes," but they knew is substance to be true...
...arming our ships and convoying them, sinking submarines on sight: even though Germany declares war, we should on no account declare war on our part. It is the rights of neutrals to traverse the high seas in time of war that we wish to establish. If we stop at armed neutrality the issue is always clear. The warfare which might ensue would be of a purely defensive sort, and at the same time of the kind most effective against the submarines--which are the only part of Germany we have cause to fight. We should...
...final scheme for a constructive solution has been advanced. One policy alone seems fairly definite in the minds of the reformers, that the clubs as self-electing close corporations shall be abolished, and a thoroughly democratic system substituted in their place. In this way they hope to establish a wider basis for fellowship, where all men will meet on an equal basis, regardless of their social position and personal characteristics and build up a more wholesome social structure...