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...students' interest in life and affairs, and an increase of their sense of responsibility. This has been shown not only by their alacrity in any forms of military service opening before them, but also by such an appeal as lately came from Yale, calling on the faculty to establish forthwith a course, to be "compulsory on all and the hardest in the curriculum," that would aid them in understanding world movements today. On the other hand there has been the direct and gloomy witness of shiftlessness in scholarship given by the results of mid-year examinations as they turned...
...these words be taken to mean that forthwith every manager of a major sport be given credit for half a course towards his degree, the suggestion is not only revolutionary but unsound. For, even granted that in his three years' competition for and conduct of a managership, every manager must devote more time, energy, and ability to his work than is required in many a half-course of college work, the fact still remains that as things now stand; the work of managership cannot receive scholastic recognition, and must in a sense be its own reward. Valuable it undoubtedly...
...addition to Foxcroft Dining Hall opens today, finally solving the problem of over-crowding there. Men on the waiting list, which has lately included about 30 names have been notified of the increased accommodations, and the list will be forthwith abolished. There is now room in the hall for almost 300 men, and it is hoped that more men will now join...
...Cruz deals with the adventures of Nicodemus, a coachman. While driving his master to a country house he neglects to apply the brakes to the carriage on a steep hill, resulting in the wreck of the carriage and the great discomfort of the occupants. His master discharges the coachman forthwith, without paying him some $462 back wages. He sends Nicodemus to M. Corneta, a debtor of his, however, with a letter recommending him to hire Nicodemus, to pay the coachman his $462 back wages, and to be sure and give him 462 blows for good measure. Corneta accordingly calls Andres...
...suggestion that a celebration be made on this anniversary was made last spring by W. C. Lane '81, president of the Harvard Memorial Society. A committee consisting of the four undergraduate class presidents and the officers of the Memorial Society with a few representative undergraduates, was forthwith formed. Plans for a formal pageant were given up because the committee was unable to find any one to write a suitable piece. It is hoped that some eminent speaker may be secured for the formal part of the celebration. Another meeting of the committee will be held next week when more definite...