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...Progress of Mrs. Alexander" differs in three particulars from the plays that the Dramatic Club has acted hitherto. It is a light and satirical comedy of the present hour; it has its local interest and entertainment, since the longest and the most amusing of the three acts passes in a Boston drawing room at the meeting of a Boston club; and it has been written by a student of Radcliffe. It will be the first long comedy and the first play by a woman that the club has acted. It is, besides, a piece actually written by a student...
...selection of a Rhodes Scholar from Massachusetts, for the term of three years beginning next October, will be held today and tomorrow at the Harvard Medical School, Longwood avenue, Boston. Candidates who take the examinations must pay the supervising examiner a fee of $5 to meet the local expenses of examination and selection. Candidates who file a certificate of exemption must pay a fee of $1 to the chairman of the Committee of Selection at the time of filling the certificate...
This time at least the Advocate is not careering through space remote from College life; it is a local paper dealing with Harvard questions old and new. The editors pay their respects to the Polo Club, the lecture system, the assistants in English A, and the buyers of printed notes. Two of the five prose articles attack in the good old way weak spots in our methods of instruction, and one shows how alcohol gradually drowns college ideals. Of the two poems, the longer may be called academic...
...intends in the future to pay more attention to the point of view section because a just criticism of college papers has always been that there is usually little suggestion of college about them. In the current number, for example, there are two letters on a subject of direct local and contemporary interest--the new method of assignment of rooms in Senior dormitories, these very letters, moreover, bringing out the point that articles in such a paper as the Advocate should be much more carefully thought out and should be expressed in a more nearly final form than are such...
...courses in Government. The first of these, Government 10, will deal with English National Government and will be open to undergraduates. The other two, which are primarily for graduates but open also to undergraduates who have had some training in history and political science, are to deal with English Local Government, Government 18, and with "The Psychological Conditions of Modern Government," Government 31. Mr. Wallas is well known to American readers through his recent remarkable book on "Human Nature in Politics"; and, besides being a scholar of international reputation, he has had much active experience in English politics...