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...return if, he is a cheat and sometimes comes dangerously near to forgery. Now the number of men who are sneaks or cheats is not large, but it is large enough to make the administration of the Reading Room troublesome and discouraging, and enough partially to defeat the object for which the few simple rules of the room are framed--namely, to secure equal opportunity for all readers in the use of books...
...dwell at length on the few evidences of a dramatic revival in American hails of learning. Foremost among these latter is the 47 Workshop at the University, given under the direction of Professor G. P. Baker '87. This is the pioneer course in dramatics among American colleges. Its object it not to study the drama as literature so much as to take it up as a practical art, recognizing the claim of the creative artist, and giving him this vehicle of practice and self expression. There has long been a lack of understanding and appreciation of the fundamental value...
...London one may ask whether or not the same plan would be sufficient in football. The necessity of maintaining for this purpose a public spectacle attended by thousands of spectators every Saturday throughout the autumn is certainly not clear; and whether it ought to be maintained for any other object is a matter worth consideration. Like many other questions touching the direction of undergraduate life this is one that affects all American colleges, and it would be well for faculties, administrators and governing bodies to consider afresh the proper place of public intercollegiate athletic contests in the scheme of education...
...taxing the student? Possibly that may be the way out. But the fact that the present system relieves us all of so much trouble and anxiety prevents us from welcoming any such method. If the public, we ask, is willing to help support the University, why should we object...
...last meeting the Associated Harvard Clubs passed a vote urging that our eleven should play with one of the great colleges of the Middle West, in alternate years at the Stadium and on the field of that college. If, like the professional baseball leagues, the object of the college football teams is to carry on a contest for national championship it is not quite clear how these, demands can be proved unreasonable. But the Faculty, assuming that education is the prime object of the college, is of the opinion that the members of the team, their substitutes, managers, etc., cannot...