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...announcement of the Student Council concerning its nominations for undergraduate officers of the Union should greatly interest all those who appreciate the progress of the common Harvard club during the past year. Besides these nominees ample opportunity for popular representation on the ballot is provided by allowing nominations by petition. Although the Union as a club is open only to those who have paid the small membership fee all undergraduates may vote for the vice-president; the privilege of voting for the undergraduate committee being justly restricted to its members...
...division of Courses for Graduates unusual opportunity is given to graduate physicians who may wish to specialize along either fundamental or clinical lines but without reference to a higher degree. In large measure the work is elected by physicians who wish to review medical progress usually in a clinical field. The work selected may occupy no more than two weeks or a month though it may less frequently be extended over a period of several months...
...University tennis squad of twenty men who have been practicing through the winter on the Longwood indoor courts, is now playing out of door Courts are reserved for the squad on Jarvis Field, and trials for the southern trip are now in progress; a series eighteen snatches is being played off every day this week and will constitute a part of the trials. The southern trip will start April 16 and six men will be taken; Captain L. A. de Turenne '21 at J. B. Fenno Jr. '21 both members of the team for two years, are practically assured...
...referring more particularly to the objects before the Convection, President Eliot stressed two points. At the risk of seeming behind the times, he said he counselled his hearers not to reject old-fashioned principles, especially, when they relate to the progress of mankind, without careful examination. He advised students to devote a large part of their time to the study of the past more particularly the past of America, for by doing so they will discover two things. First, that progress in America has always been slow and steady rather than spasmodic: second that progress has always been gained...
...days when our nation was considered an upstart, the American vessels found their way in no small proportion into the scattered ports of the world. Since the time of clippers (now but a cherished memory) the "upstart" has developed by territorial expansion, growth of population, industrial and agricultural progress into a first rate nation with no mean commanding power in International affairs. But the carriage of our own products on the high seas has slipped out of our hands, and with it the many accompanying political and economic advantages...