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Miss Wilkins has a bit of a "pastel in prose" entitled "After the Rain." It is very simple; it is rather pretty; it is printed because Miss Wilkins wrote...
...drizzling storm, half snow, half rain, interrupted the goal kicking contest. The ball was wet, Jarvis field was slippery, and on the whole the conditions for good kicking were very unsatisfactory. The wind, being rather strong and gusty, added to the unfavorable conditions. Although the +++rials from the two nearest distances were completed, the results will not be counted, but the whole contest will be postponed to the first...
THOSE who are interested in the further adornment of the yard will be pleased to observe the action taken by the President and Fellows regarding the Fogg Fine Arts building. It would indeed appear the wiser course of action to erect it immediately rather than wait for further be quests, and this not so much from unselfulness as for the special need existing for a Museum of Fine Arts in the University and beautiful surroundings for the art student. We are apt to place stress upon convenience rather than upon esthetic considerations in our buildings; but one need only recall...
...have passed through the stage of secrecy in societies, and, with one exception, have given up that characteristic to them, can realize more fully that it is an absurd and nonsensical characteristic, fitted rather for the school boy than for the college man. It is observable, moreover, that where there are secret fraternities in colleges, the undergraduates are generally young and immature and lack broad and sober view of college life which bring among other things, an antipathy for secret societies. Until this maturity becomes more common among all our colleges secret societies, with the absurdities which they generally bring...
Legislation treats this question in its social relations. It is often supposed that there is but one right law, which should be enacted no matter what the results. But we should consider it rather, as a practical means to get at a definite end. The drink habit is the enemy, and it is the business of legislation to pick out suitable weapons, and means of attack, and then to employ them. It must necessarily have a partial, tentative effect, because the subject is one of ethics; because of the necessary effect every man must have on the whole social organism...