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Much interruption and difficulty prevented the message from being copied for an hour after it was first heard. As soon as it was received, however, it was telephoned to Governor McCall and to Mayor Rockwood...
...apparatus of the club is very successful and has heard messages from Berlin and Hanover, Germany. Such long-distance instruments will ensure success on this end of the relay...
...temperature under canvas would be scarcely bearable. Besides, unless the tent were enormous, the remedy to the present situation would be only one of degree. The Stadium offers a better solution. Its acoustic properties are not ideal, but speakers do succeed in making themselves heard in it; and all who desired could be accommodated. In case of rain, of course, it would probably be necessary to resort to Sanders Theatre again; but this would be of infrequent occurrence. A radical change certainly must be made unless Commencement Day for most graduates and Seniors is to be reduced to watching...
...half-course on English and American literature since 1890, which is announced by the English Department, will interest a great many students, both within and within the department. The complaint is often heard that college courses deal too much with the past and too little with the present, and some reformers-- as the genial "Uncle Dudley" did a year ago,-- nonchalantly propose the abolition of many or all such courses. They class all thought of the past as useless learning; and forget that a large amount of intellectual capital which it would be prodigal to waste has been saved...
...manner in which the work has been done, in spite of the great handicap which the present building and equipment has placed upon it. Practically all that was hoped of this new system has been realized, while the professional pessimists who opposed its introduction have not as yet been heard from. The fact that the Harvard authorities themselves who advised against Princeton's trying the plan are now preparing to take it up is proof of the practical and useful way in which it has worked...