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With all its preliminary work completed, the University Register has gone to press, and the editors have promised that the book will come out on the fifteenth of the month. Within the next two weeks a canvass of the entire University will be made for subscriptions. The price for this issue will be $2 instead of last year's price...
Last year there was much comment on the failure of class elections, due to the lack of interest by the necessary sixty percent of the class to cast their votes. The whole affair was exploited by the press as an instance of the traditional "Harvard Indifference". Various communications were written explaining that many students preferred not to vote, than to vote for men about whom they knew nothing. Campaign speeches were suggested each candidate to take the stump or soap-box and describe to an interested group of student listeners the principles on which he based his claim to popular...
...some doubt as to just what the decision of the audience decided. Apparently there is some disagreement as to whether the vote was to be taken on the question of joining the League or on the merits of the question as disclosed by the affirmative and negative. Advance press notices left doubt on the matter. Ex-Governor McCall, in his introductory remarks, said nothing to dispel it; and reports of the event in today's papers only show that it exists outside of College as well as in. Some people in the audience seem to have voted on one question...
...Napoleon of the British Press--as Lord Northcliffe liked to be known--pondered much on the future of The London "Times". What was to become of the paper that many consider the greatest in the world he dared not surmise. To insure its economic future he conceived of several plans, not the least interesting being the proposal to deposit the stock with the British Museum. In such a way, no thought the paper would maintain its status "in perpetuity...
...first issue of the Review is now on the press and will appear as of October...