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...season without injury. Grew was on crutches during the important game last season and Dunker was well used up before the season closed. Either may be out before the Tiger and Bulldog encounters. Kernan is more than ordinarily brittle and injury may dog his trail at any time. The problem arises as to who shall fill their places in even of casualties. Could Davenport and Littlefield flanked by Hobson and R. S. Hubbard be substituted in the center of the line and still preserve its present strength...
...difficult to understand why they have become not only a Russian, but a Parisian and an American institution. "Loyalties" is a play which treats a difficult and ever-present situation with consummate skill. Its characterization and its acting place it far above most of the so-called problem plays" which have cluttered the modern stage...
...problem of limitation of numbers apparently blooms perennially at Harvard. Hardly has the ghost of racial discrimination been laid to rest, when a new speckle arises provoked by the registration of 930 men in the Freshman class. When the enrollment figures for the entering class rise in three years from 621 to 930, no question of classification of transfers can after the fundamental fact that the size of the student body is increasing at a dangerously rapid rate...
...exception, there is a real need for institution which will offer opportunities higher than those of more trade schools to the relatively few students who want them and can profit by them. The need has been recognized before and Harvard is apparently anxious to be among such institution. The problem is to establish a system, one of whose prerequisites is limitation of numbers...
...these except the last, the Harvard special committee on admission, in its report last April, recommended "several steps in the way of excluding inferior students". It is too early to judge whether these steps have served their object. Certainly they have done nothing to solve the problem of enrollment...