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...recently been ascertained that the privileges of the Reading Room in the library are being abused in a manner that is as original as it is obnoxious. A group of students indulge in assembly of an evening around one of the tables, and instead of utilizing the sacred quiet unobtainable in most dormitories for composing eleventh-hour masterpieces in History, or heroically attempting to absorb three weeks' worth of Fine Arts in three hours, they make their books and papers a mask for a very congenial conversational society. By means of argument and repartee, now subdued and earnest, now noisy...
...approve of the scheme, in fact, adopted it ourself the day we recovered from an afternoon of Sarah Bernhardt by sitting under Billy Sunday in the evening, or vice versa, no matter. But why limit the choice to recent publications? Our own list for the weekend past, after the manner of the "Review," would look something like this...
Reconstruction began with the opening of college after the Armistice. The management realized that the true purpose of the club was three-fold: to furnish an outlet for undergraduate creative talent in the many phases of production; to represent Princeton ideals and purposes in a wholesome manner; and to prove to a doubting public that pure amateur integrity and ability is worthy of recognition. Although lack of time prevented any production on an elaborate scale, no time was wasted in providing a make-shift vehicle which would give the potential talent then in college much-needed experience. Booth Tarkington...
Such an arrangement is unparalleled in the history of the University, as never before have the governing towards taken part in the daily morning services in this manner. These services will be held in Appleton Chapel at 8.45 o'clock as usual, and close at the regular hours...
...seized the opportunity of doing the best possible advertising through their under graduates and graduates during the Christmas vacation, and one must credit them with a profit on the balance-sheet. Harvard gained nothing by liberating. The University does not wish to conduct an advertising campaign in a commercial manner, but it should not refuse to extend its influence where it can. It is conservatism carried to a harmful degree to imagine that a good name and fame are spread without any effort from within. Harvard, like Yale and Princeton, should support whole-heatedly any plan leading to a greater...