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EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON. The urgent need for better dormitory accommodations must be met in some way in the near future. As soon as the college can secure available funds a new dormitory will undoubtedly be erected, but meanwhile it has suggested itself to the minds of many that old Massachusetts could be refitted at comparatively small expense in such a way as to provide pleasant quarters to a great number of men. It is but a few years since the building was altered to its present condition owing to doubts as to the strength of its walls...
...past years it has often happened that the marks were not announced to sections until many weeks after the examinations were over. This not only keeps the students in a state of unnecessary suspense, but often prevents them from learning in which courses they have been deficient and need to pay most attention to during second half-year. On the other hand a student may have valued his work in the examination room too highly and be tempted to slight a course in favor of others, until he learns to his dismay that he has been marked lower than...
...putting on airs." over "country oarsmen," is that, "since eminent lawyers agree that this offence is not a felony, nor even a misdemeanor, sensible people punish such actions by those most potent penalties, indifference and disregard-what common folks call 'a severe letting alone.' " Such remarks as these need but little comment from us. The fact is simply this: that the Spirit of the Times, has made a most unprovoked attack upon both Harvard and Yale, for reasons best known to itself. It must be evident, even to the Spirit of the Times, that it would be utter folly...
...pursuing any middle course under the present system. President Eliot and Professor White seemed to consider such a course quite impossible. Mr. Coolidge and others argued that by a judicious oversight by the faculty committee and by using extreme care in employing professionals as trainers no element of professionalism need be introduced into our sports. The excess of college athletics could easily be checked, and things reduced to the basis of the time not long passed, when the present crusade against professionalism was unheard of. The objection of the faculty, it was urged in reply, was to professionalism in toto...
...observatory at Columbia is on top of the library building. The great need, Professor Rees, its director, has said, was a special endowment. An endowment fund of $150,000 or $200,000 would make it the finest observatory in the country. The college had spent so much money in new building that it could not specially endow the observatory...