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...second place, class buttons, as they now exist and whatever may be said to the contrary, remain a Senior prerogative. Harvard has few class customs; in fact, Senior gowns and buttons and the Junior Dance are the only ones that persist. If Sophomores feel that they must add to these customs, they should not make an addition that will be immediately offset by a subtraction...
Dean Briggs presided at the meeting of the Freshman class in the Union last evening, introducing as first speaker, Professor R. B. Merriman '96. Professor Merriman reminded the men of the great differences and conflicting personalities that must exist in a university as large and as cosmopolitan as Harvard and warned the 1917 men not to "shun or look askance at some one else because that someone else happens to be different from yourself and don't be deceived by momentary greatness for the race is a long one and those leading now may not be in sight...
...spite of this commendable service students are not very conversant with the past service and present functions of the Council. This body exist to do all in its power to increase the efficiency of the dining halls, and requests men who are dissatisfied or see ways for improvement to submit all suggestions. Because the University Dining Council has to deal with institutions that are of such importance in the social life of Harvard, it deserves to be regarded as the organ that represents the students body and is prepared to serve it to the utmost capacity. Two fundamental considerations should...
...hardly to be expected that this number of the Monthly will interest ordinary undergraduates, who are not given to reflect seriously about poetry and philosophy. But it will undoubtedly stimulate its more mature readers to valuable questioning, and that makes it abundantly worth while. If the Monthly did not exist, it is improbable that this excellent discussion of contemporary problems by young men at Harvard would ever have been prepared, let alone printed. The Monthly has justified itself...
...Monthly's inception in 1885 several definite proposals for a merger have been made, but have been consistently rejected through the inability of the two papers to effect a satisfactory compromise. The abstract advantages of combination, without reference to sentiment or tradition, are obvious. Whatever difference in field may exist is purely of degree, and by continued independent action the magazines tend to develop a mutual hindrance which makes it impossible that the College should be fairly represented in a literary way by either...