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...reply to the communication printed in another column we wish to say that, although those in charge of the Library protest that the facilities for required reading in the larger courses are adequate, we are advised from authoritative sources that this is not the case. Although the Library may not have consciously changed its policy with regard to the purchase of extra copies of books, it has been noticeable for a year or more that the supply of books for new courses has not been kept up to the demand. It is true that the Library has eight copies...
Rather than apparently to countenance these methods, our first thought was to withdraw our names from the nominations for office. Such action we feel would serve as a just protest against political organization, and as a reminder to future classes that elections at Harvard should be based, not upon class or social distinctions, but upon proven worth and merit alone...
...press of the country has voiced a general demand for revision of the football rules. An undue number of severe injuries and the preponderance of mass plays are the features of the game which are most severely criticised. In the months following the season of 1905 a similar protest caused the Rules Committee to make radical reforms in the game; It seems likely that some changes must also be made this year to meet the expectations of those who are dissatisfied with present conditions...
...well find reason for satisfaction in having at last reached its legitimate field. The presentation of a play by the club last year was so clearly foreign to its province and so much an intrusion on the vested privileges of the Dramatic Club that the CRIMSON was constrained to protest. We have been assured that the Speakers' Club will hereafter confine itself to the encouragement of public reading, speaking, and argument, in which, since the decline of the debating organizations, it has opportunities for great usefulness...
...leading article, "Harvard's Gymnasium; a Protest and a Plean," by Messrs. Sammons and Smith, is a clear and practical statement of the whole case. These are seven admirable illustrations, besides an elevation and ground plan of the new gymnasium, a table of the comparative sizes of American college gymnasiums, detailed statistics, etc. Nothing important or interesting seems to have been omitted. The "New Gymnasium,"so long a necessity, has at last become a reality...