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...reception will be given in Boston to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as well as a reception to the first group of scholars. This is, we believe, the first systematic attempt of the Boston graduates to come in personal contact with members of the Faculty at a function of this sort and it will prove beneficial to all concerned...
...some years since this method was taken of presenting philanthropic work to undergraduates and it should aid materially this year. A wrong idea is not uncommonly held as to the function of the committee in charge. The committee's purpose is not to do the work itself--that would be easy and unprogressive--but to interest as many men as possible in the problem of helping along their less fortunate brothers and to develop an enthusiasm for these beneficial and organized movements which are working for the betterment of society...
...committee's duty, therefore, to work rapidly and quietly, and to place no delay on the formation of a working athletic program for the future. But it has a larger function, in the fulfillment of which it may do an enormous amount of good...
What has become of the various denominational political clubs that organized with such flourish not many week ago? Those organized to support particular candidates for nomination, to be sure, apparently no longer have any distinct function as the caucuses are over. But if they are to pass out of existence, should not there be an opportunity for those who so eagerly jointed them to hear the reports of their officers, to dispose of what funds there may be in the treasuries, and constitutionally to dissolve...
...life at the University has so changed in recent years that most students find no occasion whatever for rising before 8 o'clock. Why, then, should those who live within sound of this bell be subjected to a continual annoyance? The 7 o'clock clang performs no conceivable useful function and only serves to add a useless discomfort to the list that already prevails in Yard dormitories...