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...part of President Eliot's last annual report, just published in the Graduates' Magazine, there is a paragraph which it seems to me deserves consideration from a somewhat different standpoint. Speaking of the increase of private dormitories and the large number of students living outside of College buildings, the President says, "An experience of 270 years with dormitories has demonstrated that they are not good property for the College, it having proved impossible to earn on them so good an income as the mass of general investments of the University yields. The President and Fellows have not built a dormitory...
...advise of the editorial article on "Happy Mid-years," which seems to be aimed both against excessive "grinding" and frantic tutoring, is certainly worthy of consideration; the tone of the paragraph on new resolutions is that of admonition tinged with gentle cynicism. The contribution inveighing against serious-mindedness, is, however, not in the least cynical, and if it fails to convince some of us, it is not because the article is not pleasantly written. Of the two pieces of verse, "Winter Dreams" is poetical in conception, but the imagery seems to lack originality, and the lines drag. "River Wind...
...entertainments consult this book in advance doubtless some conflicts would be avoided; but such is the diversity of interests at Harvard that it is not always undesirable to have several of these attractions on the same evening. This aspect of the situation is well illustrated in the following paragraph in Dean Briggs's "Harvard and the Individual...
...tone of the editorial in Monday's CRIMSON was so extraordinary that I should like to express what I feel so strongly that I am sure that others must feel it too. I do not mean to discuss the "niceness" of dealing out editorial sarcasms--practically personal in one paragraph--to amateur athletes. But I should like to protest against the composition of more communications and editorials of the variety that has been so common this autumn, and of which Monday's article was an exaggerated instance. Let me identify further what I mean by quoting two sentences which...
...Freshmen in English A and received by too many of them with polite indifference. To read the beliefs and hopes expressed in the article regarding the character of the undergraduate of today should be a welcome opportunity to anyone interested in college life. To quote part of the opening paragraph: "To an American college, the word of all words is 'truth'. 'Veritas' is the motto of Harvard; 'Lux et Veritas' the motto of Yale. . . . Now, whether the truth be truth of religion, or of science, or of commerce, or of intercourse among fellowmen, a college to stand for it must...