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...weeks ago a member of the Board of Overseers asked as if there were any one thing which the undergraduates were "kicking" about; any particular grievance they were nursing. At the moment there seemed no peculiar circumstance worth mentioning; but were the same question propounded now the answer would be immediately give--and it would be concerned with the divisional examinations. Not that there is a protest against the examinations perse. There isn't; but there is much in the way of adjustment to be made, on the part of the faculty as well as of the students...
...Nation." The diminutive essays so collected cover a wide field, include book reviews, play reviews, and by the way studies in the fundamentals in the drama and theatre. Mr. Lewisohn has recognized the difficulties that beset him, and the inevitable criticisms of a volume of sketches written for a particular occasion. "The brief essay and studies that compose this volume are desultory only in appearance" he says. "They were written on, but not for a particular day, and seek to illustrate, whatever the date or material, a theory of both the drama and the theatre that is coherent and that...
...many faculty advisors have been more or less forced into the position, and have not the time to properly discharge its functions. The fault is not theirs. A group of thirty or more younger men, qualified by training and by personality--probably personality first--whose work, at least at particular times of the year, would be to advise--and nothing else,--is an idealistic solution. What would be the balance of such a man's occupation at the University--if any--is a difficult question to answer, and there is not space here to go into details...
...Chase and Evans tied for first place and Churchill coming in even with Hovey. The last two have been on practically even terms all season and inasmuch as probably only one of them will make the southern trip, their work in the meet on Friday will be watched with particular interest. In the two Freshman trials G. E. Barker and E. H. Codman secured first places with D. B. Wilson and J. A. Abbott coming in second...
Chief among the subjects that remain on the agenda is the stabilizing of international exchange. The chaotic fluctuations of the present day are an enormous barrier to international trade, depriving Germany and England in particular of markets for their manufactured goods., Solutions for the difficulty are almost as numerous as the delegations, but they agree broadly in emphasizing a strict regulation of the paper money issued by each country. Closely bound with this problem is that of free trade, but prejudices and difficulties of labor and transportation enter here so strongly that little progress may be expected. Aid to Russia...