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Harvard is fortunate in having many tutors who perform their true function, and to them is due the splendid success and almost universal approval the tutorial system has met with among students. But so long as a single tutor remains content to regard himself as one in kind with the hirelings of tutoring schools, the tutorial system at Harvard will fall short of its fullest service as an instrument in education; and the majority of unfortunates who go to such a tutor will continue to regard the divisional examinations as an added hurdle to be got over...
...each smoker in the future, upper classmen will be invited to act as hosts to the Freshmen in an effort to make these functions enjoyable and informal gatherings. Music and entertainment, to be provided by the Instrumental Club and other organizations, will feature the program of the first meeting on October 19. D. C. Gates '26, President of the Instrumental Clubs, and E. A. Smith '26 will be the headliners on the entertainmen bill for the initial function...
...Begum's face is invariably covered in public. None the less, enterprising photographers managed to secure her picture at the time of a state function years...
...sculptor who ranks in the very thin and isolated company of the world's greatest artists, appears incredible-would be impossible, if it were not that Rodin, all his life, created images in stone as rapidly as if to do so were a natural, an inescapable function of his body. An eminent critic once stated that Balzac, the novelist, was not an individual but one of Nature's forces, like fire or che wind; Rodin was treated with the same sort of primary electricity. He left as many wrought stones as a volcano -a giant's spawn...
...line, with Coolidge, left end, playing the stellar role, was the feature of the initial encounter. Not once did St. John's threaten to score, never approaching nearer than Harvard's 35-yard line. So superior were the scrub forwards that even the visitors kidking game was unable to function, kicks being constantly blocked...