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...comradeship, which should prevail here, that poverty implies no disgrace and is nothing to apologize for. To us the criticisms are hardly worth considering in comparison with the high aim, the democratic results, certain to be achieved, and the scholastic benefits to accrue. The only real objection we have heard is that the Freshman class is going to overflow the new buildings at once, and that some unfortunates will have to go elsewhere. Defects and disappointments may develop, but today President Lowell and Harvard are heartily to be congratulated on the new departure; every one who hopes for real democracy...
...Tuesday, June 16, the Class Day exercises of the class of 1914 will begin in the morning with a service in Appleton Chapel. At 11 o'clock there will be exercises in Sanders Theatre, at which the class oration, ode and poem will be heard. In the afternoon the Stadium exercises will begin, the most important feature of which will be the Ivy oration. On Tuesday afternoon, also, Harvard and Yale will clash in the first baseball game of the 1914 series, at New Haven...
...same principle should apply here. As the scheme has worked out, men reserve courts and, later finding themselves unable to use them, simply fail to claim them. The vacancies remain filled according to the charts, however, and later applicants are thus prevented from reserving courts. I have also heard that there are men who abuse the privilege to the extent of signing up for courts at different hours under different names, and then using which ever court they prefer later...
...entries have been slow in coming in, but it is expected that several more schools will be heard from during the day. Among those already received are St. Mark's Lowell High School, and Milton High School. The entries must be in the hands of Manager R. E. Allen '15, 48 Hampden Hall, by 8 o'clock tonight and should be accompanied by $1 entrances fee for every player and $5 annual dues for each school...
...third article is "An Impractical Suggestion," by J. N. Burk '16. We have often heard of the difficulties and vices of the making of a program for a concert; Mr. Burk goes so far as to wish that there would be no program at all; for one solitary symphony has quite enough in it for any intellect at one sitting. He also points out the errors of an unbalanced choice of compositions for a concert whereby one tour de force completely obliterates all the others, or at least totally ruins their effects. Any sensitive concert goer will say how true...