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...anti-conscription team upheld their side. We congratulate the 1921, speakers on their victory, but it does seem as though a labor conscription policy would bring the most efficient results in spite of the opposition that the powerful Labor Party would be bound to make. Conscription is always odious, but it is the only fair method of selection and it would strike rich as well as poor. The man who is drafted for labor has very little ground for objection, compared to the person chosen for trench service and a labor draft is the one and only...
...Playing on a muddy field and with a slippery ball, Harvard did not make a single fumble Saturday, a fact which is particularly encouraging when reports from New Haven state that Yale's defeat was brought about by fatal blunders in handling the ball. The comparison is far from odious...
...oral exams. have been overhauled by previous Student Councils, but their recommendations have been shelved or blocked in some department before they ever reached the Faculty. By the time that the class of 1915, after being in the toils for three years, became Seniors, the orals had grown so odious and unfair that the recent movement to reform them was unusually aggresive...
...once there arose the inevitable cry of discrimination. Papers all over the land heralded Harvard's ideas on the particular subject under discussion. As a matter of fact, neither the Corporation nor the vast majority of Harvard undergraduates had any such ideas. Naturally, this sort of publicity was odious to a degree. Thus, were there no regulation, every refusal by the Corporation would result in like misrepresentation...
...University as a token of loyalty from the Class of 1908? Do they realize that unless the subscriptions are largely increased within the next few days there will not be funds enough to meet the expenses of the Class dinner, the last undergraduate affairs of the Class? Comparisons are odious at best and in this case they are especially irritating. The Class of 1907 had a balance last year of over $15,000 including pledges, while to date the subscriptions from 1908 aggregate $11,669, of which only $1,111 has been paid in. The time is short...