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...perfection of the indexing system now in use at the directory office, Mr. Mead hopes to have the list more than 90 per cent. correct when it is issued. During the three months intervening between sending out the proof sheets and going to press changes took place at the rate of more than 2,000 a month, and it is expected that in spite of the most painstaking work more than three thousand addresses will be out of date when the directory is issued. The difficulty is increased by the fact that 1,551 men are now carried...
...flights with hydro-aeroplanes. The duration of this course is two months. Classes will be organized for July 1st and 15th, additional courses being provided for as conditions warrant. The fee for the special summer course, including flights, is $100. The institution is housed in a four story fire-proof structure of steel and concrete. The building is fitted with light, airy classrooms, recreation quarters, library, reading and smoking rooms, and the largest school workshop in the country...
...avoid militarism, by making West Point exclusively a school for reserve officers who desire, to continue their military career after having won commission in the various R. O. T C.'s. Mr. Holbrook is probably too sanguine; no education has yet been discovered which will render weak human nature proof against the possession of power. It is, moreover, impossible to "leave out of consideration the question of the enlisted men." But the discussion of this and kindred topics is indispensable; and it is be hoped that college men will give their best thought to them...
...simple truth is that it is not a representative Harvard paper." Representative of what, we ask.--And as an example of this "unrepresentative short-coming," the editors of the Magazine quote carelessness in cutting and proof-reading as though they believed that accuracy typified Harvard undergraduates. The CRIMSON has not previously been informed that it was so unrepresentative that the College is about to repudiate it and foster a new daily, which fact the Harvard Magazine has taken upon itself to declare, representing as it does the best of undergraduate thought and desires...
...further proof of the presence of spring were needed, the horticultural activities in the Yard furnish it. The superannuated gentry who appear from nowhere each spring and with withered hands minister to sadly bedraggled borders, are with us once again. Not content with knocking off our hats as we pass, by the vigorous sweeps of their rake handles or with flinging grass seed inadvertently upon our newest outing garments, these ancient toilers have this year, conceived the notion of erecting formidable wire entanglements about arbitrary to man's lands, and thus sheltered they enjoy ham sandwich "spreads" during the noon...