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...heard great reports of the Glee Club this summer. Those who were abroad had the opportunity of witnessing their triumph in Paris; those who remained on this side of the Atlantic read constantly of the Club's achievements. The University may well be proud of its singers...
Very few of the present Senior Class have ever heard of the great Harvard professors who became famous in the nineteenth century,--such as William James and Josiah Royce. Another man who ranks with these is Professor George Herbert Palmer, who has consented to conduct the Class Day services in Appleton this year. The talks which he gave to the Seniors on Class Days before 1917, when he retired from the position of Class Day Chaplain were among the most impressive events of the week...
...younger graduates and lingering students of Harvard seen the recent editorial comment in regard to the present tendencies of thought in the student body at the University. We have been constantly reminded of the ecumenical wave of "radicalism" that is sweeping the undergraduate off his intellectual feet. We have heard with deadening conviction the results of the diagnosis of students' marks. We have almost recoiled in despair at the revival of the old question of social distinctions, and the intolerant, glib exegesis that has naturally followed. Our guilty conscience has not been due to any secret lamentation and outward enthusiasm...
...have read that editorial and have been profoundly moved by its truth. Indeed we believe he took it so much to heart that he determined to do his share to spice the drab existence of the undergraduate with the bright sparkle of wit. Witness the following conversation which we heard repeated three times while waiting for a book last evening...
...first, through a rather vaudevillian mingling of Capital and Labor concord, patriotic tableaux, and half-humorous idealism; in the second, through two or three tunes which actually survive the evening as such; and in the third, through a list of characters none of whom has ever been heard of before...