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...Houses have monopolized athletic honors. At least four times in the past six years of competition, they have together held first and second place. And the reason? Simply spirit. "It's a brave man indeed--or a foolish one--who mentions 'spirit' here at Harvard," reads the opening paragraph of the first Kirkland House Year Book, "but when it's a question of Kirkland House, spirit with all its ghastly implications must be mentioned too. For spirit is what individualizes Kirkland...
...Through a regrettable error in proofing, the sense of Friday's editorial, "Credimus", was changed. The final paragraph should have read as follows...
...morning last week the foregoing paragraph led the decorous letters column of the New York Times. Signer: Dr. Samuel Harden Church, president of the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh. The Times in its news columns further quoted 82-year-old Dr. Church to the effect that 1) he was not joking; 2) his plan had been seriously proed-&-conned for three months in Pittsburgh's Duquesne Club (coal, steel millionaires); 3) the offer had the backing of 50 citizens who could and would put up the cash; 4) he thinks his plan can work; 5) his backers doubt...
...connection with the story "Patent Sesquicentennial" p. 50 (TIME, April 15), you will be interested in the following paragraph which is also quoted in an editorial on p. 447 of the April 1940 Industrial and Engineering Chemistry...
...Note: The Crimson apologizes to Professor Elliott for not having printed his letter immediately upon receipt. The first sentences of the last paragraph seemed to the editors to indicate that the letter was not intended for publication...