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...meeting of all men who expect to compete in any branch of University track this spring will be the signal that rings up the curtain for Coach Farrell's season at 3 o'clock this afternoon. Immediately after the meeting preparations will begin for the longest and most strenuous campaign which the Crimson runners have had to face in several years...
LUCIFER - George Santayana - Dunster House ($15.00). For the richest shelves of bookstores, for the glossiest library tables, for the nicest eyes and the longest thin fingers, some artisans in papers and inks and types have redecorated an older poet's younger pantheon. When the veils are drawn, there is crimson chiseling. When the angels speak, their celestial words are of the blue of Heaven. The rarified text - five acts of lofty verse - is for high thinkers, telling the tragedy of imperious Lucifer, who sought to sustain his soul by tugging at his spiritual bootstraps...
President Eliot's accomplishments during his 40-year administration, which was the longest in the history of the University, are well known. He raised the academic standards of the graduate schools in the University from a level lower than that of the college, to a level higher than that of the college; he established the necessity of examinations for admission to college, he greatly widened and strengthened the elective system; and almost 40 years ago he abolished compulsory chapel...
With exceptionally favorable weather conditions prevailing yesterday, Coach Spuhn took four 150-pound crews on one of the longest pulls of the year. The first lightweight crew did not stop until it was within a short distance of the Subway bridge, while the remaining three shells trailed but a short distance behind...
...Second International Opium Conference at Geneva (the longest parley in the history of the League of Nations), which suffered its ups and downs for three months (TIME, Nov. 24, et seq.), came to an end last week when Belgium, Britain, Australia, Greece, Japan, Luxembourg, Holland, Persia, Portugal and Siam, out of 40 nations represented at the conference, signed an Opium Convention and Protocol. More nations may yet sign...