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...Blake will speak on the "Caucasus" at the meeting of the Harvard Travellers' Club, which will be held in the Union tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. All members of the University are invited to attend this meeting as it was arranged with the object of stimulating interest in the organization among undergraduates and graduate students...
...case here. . . . These college have grown up in England as the result of a divine accident and cannot very well be foisted ready-made upon an American university. Oxford and Cambridge, moreover, have not the complicated problems arising here out of the fact that graduate students--whose object should be the attainment of specialized knowledge--are taught in the same classes with undergraduates--whose aim should be the acquisition of intellectual power. The work of a tutor is infinitely more strenuous and exhausting than that of a lecturer; the fact that the academic year in Oxford and in Cambridge...
...long time followers of football have keenly felt this desire. Especially is this the case with fans in the west who object rather strenuously to their fellow fans of the east resting all too complacently on the fallacious assumption that because their teams do represent the staid old east they play the superior brand of football. Fans in the west have for some time now quite strenuously objected to this unwarranted supposition, and deny that there is any sound basis for it until it is proven in actual play on the gridiron...
...industry itself. Executive responsibility cannot be given to an untried man and a period of personal probation is therefore necessary for every man. The graduate of the Business School should be able to learn the routine of his job during this period of personal probation, and since his object is to get promoted out of routine work into a position of executive or administrative responsibility, we spend our time in the School giving him the breadth of training needed to qualify him for promotion. We aim to equip our men so that they can keep out of narrow business pockets...
...most important word in the name of the above-mentioned society is Temperance. The object of the Women's Christian Temperance Union is to make others practice this virtue; but there is a proverb called "practice what you preach." The Women's Christian Temperance Union seems to have started on a prohibiting spree; and it might be better for itself and the world in general if it applied the practice of Temperance to its own activities...