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...last postal ballot for overseers and gone to some trouble to determine exactly what percentage of graduates in each state had enough interest in their college to return their ballots. In general, two conclusions seemed to be reached. The first is that the East does not have any particular advantage over the West or the South as regards interest in Harvard. The Massachusetts and New York percentages--32 and 31--are high, but so are those of Illinois (81), Wisconsin and Arkansas (35) and Missouri (32). Boston Transcript...
...same concerts that were given on the steps of Widener last spring will be renewed next May and June, with a larger series, probably followed by community singing. A new addition to its plan will be a series of concerts in the music hall, illustrating some particular phase of choral music. Owning to the great demand for tickets for the Sanders Theatre series and the limited space of Sanders Theatre, the management has moved the series to Symphony Hall, Boston, where the club will sing three concerts...
...from the battery commander's station, or from a interal observation post, "E" battery made remarkable progress in this department, and at the time of a visit from the chief of Field Artillery, it was chosen to fire several problems for his benefit. He complimented the gun squads in particular for their remarkably fine work...
...Class Ode, by Paul Rice Doolin, is a good chore well done, and there is no particular fault to be found with Mr. King's "Comradeship," in the June number. The Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize Poem, by A. Morley Dobson, shows much skill in the difficult sestina, but far too little depth of judgement. In more senses than one, it is simple to uphold one side of the Flume controversy, and only to rhapsodize, not judge, or analyze the question. The normal reaction from this sort of thing has been expressed by an undergraduate some months ago, in the Harvard...
...take another example. A man goes into public life; personal ambition he is ready to put aside for the nation's good. He is convinced that this good is best promoted by a certain cause or a particular party, and as time goes on this becomes so fixed in his mind that he is ready to sacrifice almost anything for its benefit. He loses his sense of proportion, and becomes a blind partisan. This is perhaps the chief cause of the evils in public life...