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...articles intended to aid Seniors in choosing their future occupations. Professor W. F. Harris sets a high standard of practical helpfulness for the series in discussing "The Consular Service as a Profession." He holds the encouraging opinion that a return to the spoils system is "too remote to prevent any ambitious young man from fitting himself for the office of consul." Coming directly to the point of interest to college men, he tells how to become a candidate for consular examinations, what posts beginners may obtain, and what hopes of advancement they may cherish...
...shown in this morning's communication, the members of the University fencing team have to put up with disadvantages which prevent any but the most enthusiastic from taking part in the sport. We do not wonder that the size of the squad appreciably dwindles with the realization of the expenses involved, and that no better record is made in the intercollegiate meets. But the Athletic Committee apparently feels that the general interest in fencing is not great enough to warrant paying the expenses, and until there is a material change from the prevailing conditions, it will probably not change...
...Board of Overseers, he deals at length with two questions of great importance to the undergraduates. In regard to three-year graduation, the President believes that the regular College term should be reduced to that period. Such a change would raise the standard of labor in College, prevent the present confusion of the fourth year and "bring earlier into their professions the best trained young men." These results would undoubtedly be well worth accomplishing, but the benefit and pleasure to be derived from spending four years in Harvard College are not things, to be lightly dispensed with. In behalf...
...have noticed with very great pleasure a campaign against the present evils of the athletic administration. The most flagrant of these is the so-called two period rule, which seems to me to defeat its own end. The apparent object of this regulation is to prevent the undergraduates from indulging in sports to the neglect of their studies. It prevents men from competing in three different seasons, not in three different sports. One of the peculiar results is that a person can in one year be a member of the football, the baseball and the track teams, whereas he cannot...
...interest lies in the game itself. Played on a hard floor in a poorly ventilated hall, it is naturally not as attractive as out-of-door exercise, and the games often more closely resemble free fights than friendly contests between amateur teams. Although the two-period rule may possibly prevent some men from going out, it can not account for the general attitude, and its abolition would be no considerable factor toward the success of the team. At other eastern colleges, notably Yale and Brown, similar disapproval has been expressed, but the teams have nevertheless received better support than here...