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...University team began the season with excellent prospects, having several good men as veterans and some first class material from last year's Freshmen to draw on. The work was rather ragged in the early games, but of late has shown tremendous progress, culminating in the Princeton game in which the team proved that it could play an uphill fight...
...obvious that it is better to have many books than a few books that there is need of commenting on the dangers of our privilege. There was a time when no man could be great unless he had read nothing more than Pilgrims Progress, the Bible, and Shakespeare's Plays. That time has gone, and the student now a days instead of trying to get a sympathy with a few well-known authors, boasts that he is a pioneer and seeks to achieve an education by reading books by unknown authors. The desire to discover more in formation...
...next article is "The Growing Science of Efficiency," by Holbrook F. J. Porter, reprinted from "Business America," October number. He gives a readable account of the meaning, scope, and progress of a subject now justly arousing great interest. Like the general run of such writers and speakers, he seems entirely oblivious of the fact that the science of efficiency has a field of application in the field of what the economists call the distribution of wealth, as well as in the production of wealth. We can already produce far more efficiently--poorly as we may do it still--than...
...floors have now been taken up, the iron stacks being the next portion to be removed. This latter operation should not occupy over three days, and upon its completion work on the exterior will progress rapidly...
Excellent progress is being made on the new bridge. Half of the old structure has already been demolished and about three-quarters of the dredging for the foundations of the Cambridge Pier has been done. The work of driving the piles for the pier will be begun the middle of next week and will require about five days. Special machinery has been devised to break up the ice on the river and thus prevent any delay to the work...