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...Edsall has made particular study of the injurious effects of certain occupations upon workmen. For example, while professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania he attracted much attention by his researches and investigations into a malady which affects coal stokers exposed to intense heat. Being a skillful and scholarly chemist, he has made very valuable studies of the chemical effects of certain diseases on the human body, and for the results obtained in this work has won the reputation of being one of America's greatest physicians. His appointment to the Harvard Medical Faculty is most certainly a significant...
...organization is, therefore, much more substantial and effective, combining the forces of the two separate clubs. It can carry out more thoroughly its purpose of promoting mutual interest and closer relations between the two schools and the University. This is of particular importance among the Freshmen and it goes far to give them a right start by uniting them and offering an opportunity to meet men from the opposite school. The Freshman from any school is glad to have such a place to go, where he will first of all find friends. He may also be helped materially in preparing...
Although there has been but a short period of tennis as yet this spring, complaints have already reached our ears that apparently school boys have been using the available courts while Harvard men have had to wait their turn. There is no particular reason why school boys should not use the courts at times when there is no other demand for them, but from now to Commencement surely there will be a constant demand for the courts by students of the University. These students, through membership in the Athletic Association, are the owners of the courts and are therefore entitled...
Apropos of various books and magazine articles on undergraduate life in general and society life in particular, we read with much interest an editorial in the current Alumni Bulletin. Quoting an undergraduate publication, it says that "Probably the most significant thing to be said about clubs at Harvard is that they are unimportant...
...business", the writer quickly comes to earth and emphasizes the paucity of political discussion in the University. We have, as he says, the Taft Club and the La Follette Club, but neither organization takes the trouble to discuss in open debate with the other the merits of its particular candidate; much less to meet the members of the Democratic Clubs or the Socialist Club. In the light of such conditions it seems superfluous, to say the least, that the Corporation should recently have established its blanket-rule prohibiting the use of Harvard halls for "persistent propaganda on contentious subjects...