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Last spring, a graduate, who desires for the present to withhold his name, sent me, as editor of the Graduates' Magazine, $150 to be awarded in prizes for the three best articles on the possibility, or necessity, of establishing a modified English College system at our large universities, with particular reference to Harvard. The articles were to be handed in before November 1. As only two have been received, the graduate in question, who wishes to stimulate interest in this important subject, consents to extend the time of the competition till January 10, 1905. Articles must be written by members...
...point to this communication, if it has any, is this--it is not a time for controversy. The lesson of the football season is evident; there is nothing new in it, although it seems to have been brought home this fall with particular force. The thing to do now is to unite for the purpose of doing better next year and in the other years to come. JOHN D. MERRILL...
...curator of ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. He has spent much time with the Esquimaux in Baffin's Bay, and the Indians in British Columbia and Southern Alaska, as well as throughout the entire Pacific Coast. Besides having written extensively on these particular regions, and on various general questions of anthropology, Dr. Boaz was director of the Morris Jessup expedition to Behring Strait, which was engaged for six years in the study of the peoples of Northeastern Asia and Northwestern America...
Institutions, Mr. Bryce said, are meant to work for a particular people at a particular time. Not only is there a permanent element in political history to be dealt wit--human nature; there are also other elements which, however, are either local or over changing--environment, the stage of civilization, the state of communication, social classes, racial character, historical antecedents and traditions, religion, and the varying necessity for militarism...
...Tuesday the Pennsylvania team had its last line-up before the game tomorrow, and since then the work has been very light. Yesterday the team ran through signal practice, paying particular attention to mass plays directed against the centre of the line. Owing to the impossibility of securing a suitable field it was found impracticable to make the practice secret...