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...eliminate the weaknesses and defects of this present struggle for survival and to breathe into a combination of effort a new lease of life. If these papers look to support from the public whom they serve, they should take heed of this general desire and combine their efforts to establish a literary magazine that shall be worthy of Harvard. For several years, the plan for union has been before the two boards and the undergraduate body, and it has failed of realization because of mutual jealousies, to a certain extent, and of persistent clinging to traditions and sentiments...
...contributed to the launching of this proposal, the principal ones being the German war excitement, Lord Roberts' campaign in favor of universal military service, and the nationwide discussion of the value of the consolidated territorial force of Lord Haldane, former Secretary of State for War, which was aimed to establish a great force of citizen soldiers. With such powerful forces working for the military education of the graduates of the two great British institutions of learning there is little doubt that the pleadings of Lord Roberts would receive wider attention, great as has been the consideration already given to them...
There can come a great deal of good from the apparently simple task of defining "college" and "university" which the bill attempts. For too long the loose state of the law on the subject has allowed the public to be made the prey of men who could establish a "college," solicit funds, award degrees of more or less value and significance, and still not actually violate the law. For too long unsuspecting donors have been relieved of funds which they fondly believed were destined to help the cause of education but which really never accomplished the purpose for which they...
...establish new building lines on Harvard square thus increasing its size, and to broaden the approach from Harvard square to Brattle square...
...render it useful aid. To make this help entirely effective the students in the University who regularly send news items to various papers should get into communication with the Press Club so as to become members and to assist the publicity movement. The Press Club does not aim to establish a censorship over the public press by saying what shall be published and what not, for such a policy would be inapplicable. But it does aim to displace derogatory and libellous news by wide report of what the University and its students are really doing...