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...York Times Current Events Prize Contest will be held in Widener N at 3 o'clock on Friday, April 16. This announcement was made last night by Professor C. N. Holcombe, who is the representative of the University on the national committee, and who is in charge of the local contest. The winner of this examination receives a prize of $250 with a gold medal and becomes the Harvard entrant in the final competition for the intercollegiate prize...
When I was a youth in Charmington, Misereri, it was the pleasure of the local legitimates to preach sermons. In fact there was not a preacher in Charmington who did not preach, nor a minister who did not minister. But they were all Methodists and I was a Baptist. So I heard few of their sermons, received few of their ministrations. Yet this did not send me to hell. I remained in Charmington in our little gray house in the best part of town and real evil books which my mother had bought for me, books like Old Testament Stories...
...Local Harvard Clubs Are Hosts...
While on the trip the Club will be entertained at a number of the cities at which they are giving performance by the local Harvard Clubs...
...efforts of practising lawyers, and are subject to the same limitations. Nor can judges do much for us. The dockets of courts are too heavy. The view of the problems of justice which any court may get is too fragmentary, and its experience is too specialized or too local to make it possible for courts to do for our time the sort of thing they did so well in the formative era of American legal institutions...