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...Endowment Fund Committee, making it possible for the managers of the $11,000,000 campaign to get in personal touch with every living University man through the district organizations which cover the world. These cards can be distributed geographically, by classes or professions, or in whatever way the local conditions of the campaign warrant...
...cannot be efficient if underpaid and overworked. If this were the issue at hand, the public would agree absolutely with the demands of the policemen, who assert with reason that they are underpaid and overworked. But these policemen were not alone satisfied in bettering their condition. They have opposed local police force rules by affiliating with the American Federation of Labor. In so doing the strikers did not realize the great responsibility of their position nor did they regard the laws of their department governing the issue in question...
...visitors were welcomed by a reception committee headed by President A. Lawrence Lowell and consisting of W. R. Thayer '81, president of the local chapter; W. C. Lane '81, Professor W. G. Howard '91, and Assistant Dean K. B. Murdock '16. The opening business sessions of the council were held in the Union and at the Agassiz House, Radcliffe. Following these the annual dinner was celebrated at the Colonial Club, after which the company adjourned to the Widener Library where interesting books and manuscripts connected with the history of the Phi Beta Kappa...
...stories are pleasant reading and evidence technique and training. Mr. LaVarre's tale of the night with the Bovianders is rich in local color, and resounds with the beating of barbaric drums, is redolent of gin, and in its portrayal of a quaint marriage ceremony is excellently conceived. By far the best work in the entire number is Mr. Spaulding's "Fancy." This is evidently the work of a man with no mean literary talent. Next year under the stimulus of competition from the Harvard Magazine, combined with the more liberal policy which Mr. Garrison is expected to inaugurate...
Eleven members of the University chapter of Phi Beta Kappa will leave at noon today for New Haven, where they will meet the Yale high-stand men in a baseball game at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. The local honor students have been in training for two weeks, and are in excellent condition for the contest with their Eli rivals. A close struggle is expected tomorrow...