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...second place, I should like to complain of the difficulty which I have encountered in getting a corps of ushers on whom I could depend. It may have been due to may own inability to find the right men; but I am inclined to think that the fault is not wholly that. A surprising fact is that the most dependable ushers--indeed, those who are most ready to assume the cares of ushering--are the men who take the least active interest in the religious activities of the University. This is a case in which change may well begin...
There is an election of Union officers today which should not fail to appeal to all men who realize the importance and possibilities of the Union in the life of the University. If there is any fault in the Union as it is at present it is its failure to attract sufficient interest on the part of the undergraduates in its welfare. This fault is both the cause and the effect of its short- comings. The annual elections have been excellent evidence of this apathy; the vote in past years has usually been small and sometimes undiscriminating. This year, there...
During the last two months men have been at work on the lacrosse grounds and part of the marsh lands at Soldiers Field. Heretofore the lacrosse field was too low and consequently was nearly always soft and muddy. This fault has now been remedied, an average of twenty inches having been made on four acres. This will make the plot one of the dryest and best at Soldiers Field...
...preliminary word from Mr. Castle on his investigation of undergraduate English comes to us, strengthening the impression that the English of college men is far from what it should be. Among several suggestions for raising the standard to something near that of English universities one particular fault with the University curriculum is not mentioned...
...Castle has gone through the papers of all departments, studying the work of the same undergraduate in different courses and in different years. He has read 200 examination papers sent from England. This work has been carried on with a view to finding where lies the heaviest burden of fault, on the college, preparatory, or grammar school; and the mistakes in Harvard's method of teaching English...