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...rapid increase of students following the war has not yet come to an end, the prospect of a further growth in the undergraduate body raises serious problems. One of them is that of dormitories, and indeed of housing of any kind. The Dean of the School of Business Administration points out in his report that the construction of the subway, by bringing Cambridge closer to Boston, has caused many people to seek apartments here, and suddenly transformed the conditions from those of a suburban to those of an urban place. This has rendered the question of housing...
...chart accompanied the report, showing the occupations into which Harvard graduates have gone during the past 25 years, indicating a decrease in the proportion of men entering the ministry, and a rapid increase of men going into business, this latter increase appearing "to have been made in part at the expense of medicine, but chiefly of law and education." The decrease of those entering the ministry President Lowell spoke of as "a source of great regret," adding that it "is the more notable because it does not appear to accompany any progressive diminution of religious feeling among the undergraduates...
Captain Gordon was the outstanding figure of the game, playing the best brand of basketball he has exhibited on University teams. His passing was accurate and he had a dead eye for the basket. The support from his team-mates was excellent and their rapid short passes often counted for the Crimson. The game was cleanly played and hard fought throughout by both teams...
...succeeded in reaching the surface-they had used all their depth charges and had sent one chaser in for more. Finally, there was silence for some hours, followed by a very sharp ringing sound recognized as the crack of a revolver. This was succeeded by other sinister sounds in rapid succession, twenty-five in all, which indicated all too clearly that the doomed crew had abandoned hope of getting their vessel under way and hand resorted to suicide rather than suffer a slow agonizing death by suffocation...
This play, written by Wilson Cullison and Avery Hapwood, is successfully acted by the Somerville Players. The plot is a rapid succession of situations, resulting in untold complication. Miss Anne Hamilton in the role of Gertie, the heroine, is most attractive; and Mr. Harry Bond as Gertie's husband, and Mr. Halbert Brown as the clownish butler, do justice to difficult roles...