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Mind is called infinite. Yet expressed in terms of matter it is minute, scarce larger than would fit in an empty nutshell. The omnipotence of man becomes petty besides his ignorance; his greatest achievements, his boasted comprehension of the universe, are contained within a clockwork mass of matter. And the training of this mind up to a place where it even in some bare measure may approach the divine, takes the greater part of a man's life...
...received after Thursday, January 18, at 6 o'clock so that all Juniors who expect to room in the Yard dormitories (Hollis, Holworthy, Matthews, Stoughton and Thayer) next year should apply for their rooms at once. Groups of any number up to 12 will be accommodated and the larger groups will be given the first choice of suites. The committee allows 24 preferences as to dormitories, entries, etc., so that with this wide latitude given everyone should obtain acceptable rooms...
...expect to room alone or who are at present without room-mates should see the committee at the earliest possible date so that arrangements can be made in their cases. As the rooms are assigned by lot, and as in the drawing of lots the applications of the larger groups are drawn first, it is essential that all others should at once make their best efforts to obtain satisfactory rooms...
...members of the Class of 1918 requesting them to state whether or not they intend to live in the Yard next year. Juniors and all men whose last year in College will be 1917-18 should at once from groups of not more than 12 men. The larger groups will be given the preference in the allotment of rooms, which will be done...
...pool-playing, and less purchasing of reading matter as well. The returns are from the Harvard Union, and they may simply be taken to indicate a decline in the patronage of that large and democratic social organization. But the Union is representative of the undergraduate microcosm. Life in the larger world is more serious than it was before August, 1914. "The cigarette," wrote George Frederick Watts, "is the handmaid of idleness," and the diminishing consumption of cigarettes may mean that Harvard less faithfully answers the often quoted definition of the visiting Chinese savant who wrote, "They have a large athletic...