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...opening a new volume--Volume LX--the Harvard Monthly offers a well varied but slender number, a bare twenty-eight pages with four of its nine articles provided by the editors. This presumably forced inbreeding speaks ili for that independent pursuit of culture which it is the special function of a large university to foster. There should be more material--and more distinctive material available. And happily it is the newcomers who take the honors...
...other result than to dispel such misconceptions as these, the Annual Glee Club Meet held in New York Saturday is performing a worthy function. The public is, the CRIMSON believes, becoming more and more initiated into collegiate realism, and as every death of a popular fallacy leads to a better understanding of the place of the college, the CRIMSON wishes to congratulate those who have organized and maintained the glee club competition. it is undoubtedly doing a good work, and it is to be hoped that it will be perpetuated as an institution...
...August Schvan, a former Swedish diplomat and noted as an authority on international peace, spoke in Phillips Brooks House last evening on "Constructive Peace as a Diplomat Sees It." Declaring that the greatest barrier to world peace was the function of the different governments in international relations, he stated his intention of striving to "organize a new peace party to eliminate government action in international affairs...
...only 150 men have applied for invitations; so it is urged that every man who can possibly attend mail his application at once. It is hoped to make this year's function even more attractive and successful than the Junior Dances held in previous years...
...Freshman class will hold a banquet, its first social function of the year, in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 7 o'clock. President Lowell, Dean Yeomans, W. J. Murray '18, and G. A. Percy '18, will speak. U. V. Nelson '18, who has been appointed toast-master, will call on different members of the Freshman class for short speches on the various class activities...