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...last few months the required wearing of the gowns during certain times of the day--even to the restaurant or the theatre--has become irksome, and the student bodies are trying as hard to have the old custom done away with as their authorities are to preserve this link with the past. We find the custom pleasing for its quaintness, and convenient because it is not required, but we should not forget its significance. History may repeat itself and a canary necktie may yet be hidden by a prescribed muffler...
...unimportant matters, however, to which it is hard to point directly, cases of petty exclusiveness arise which give the University the name of being far less democratic than it really is. Just as the strength of a chain is measured by its weakest link, so Harvard democracy is measured by its greatest snob. If the offenders would only take the trouble to look about, they would have little difficulty in finding many people and things connected with the College community as a whole which they might well be proud, instead of too proud, to associate with. The more thoroughly...
...were broken and three equalled, and this summer Harvard and Yale will meet Oxford and Cambridge in an international meet in London. The significance of this event is not so much in showing which of the two countries can produce the better track team, but rather as one more link in the chain of friendly relations which bind two of the oldest educational institutions of this country with two of the greatest in England and in the world. The positions that Harvard and Yale secured in the intercollegiate meet show that their combined strength is by no means the greatest...
...Where basement doors are commonly hooked open, provide fusible link fastenings and springs on doors so that in case of fire in the basement, the doors will close and latch automatically...
...Provide gongs in all dormitory entries wherever a fire might shut off access to the stairs-these gongs to be arranged to operate automatically through a fusible link, and also by mechanical means from various places in the entries, those operating places to be suitably protected. Arrange to have these gongs tested at regular intervals, probably monthly...