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...from running the business end of an undergraduate institution such as the Crimson is of decided value beyond the possibility of having one's name on the letter-head for about half a year", according to Professor Robert Bowser '13, in connection with a former Crimson competition. "The essential object of going to college is and always will be an education. Yet training in undergraduate activities of this sort can well be a part of that mental discipline, which fits a man to be graduated...
...Massachusetts also, the creation of a state police force is being encouraged. The object of the House Bill No. 280 is to perform one of the most basic aims and distinctive functions of the government, namely, the protection of citizens living in the rural districts, where there are at present over 300,000 with totally inadequate police protection. This bill asks that an initial expenditure of $100,000 and an annual sum of $300,000 he provided for the establishment of a police force similar to those in New York and Pennsylvania. When hardly a week passes without the perpetration...
...belongs in this same category. Few persons who have not had personal experience in the oil business are aware of the pitfalls in the path of a would-be investor, or of the difficulties and dangers that must he surmounted before arriving at the goal of accrued dividends. The object of this brief paper is to advise any young man who has the oil fever to stop and calmly consider whether he will not be wiser in keeping his feet on the solid foundation of conservative business rather than to indulge in the present day fad of many college students...
...routine of lecture and laboratory, though chiefly laboratory, and this persists for two years,--, although in second half of the second year the laboratory exercise begins to yield to the hospital and the patient. But now the attention is merely turned from test-tube and laboratory tissue to another object of study, in which the student becomes an observer of living man rather than of the lower animals or of dissection and microscopic pathology. Students usually consider that their most difficult years are behind them when they more definitely enter upon the work of the third and fourth years...
...object of the Union, as stated in the Constitution, is "to provide at Cambridge a suitable clubhouse for social purposes for members of Harvard University." The Constitution next enumerates the various officers of the Union and their functions, together with the method to be used in their election...