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These views are set forth in a recent issue of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin by the Principal of a Secondary School which sends nearly all of its boys to Harvard. As a remedy, this principal proposes reducing the quantity of the college entrance requirements by one-fourth, the quality remaining the same and requiring the successful candidates to show by personal conference that they have made good use of their leisure time...
...Emmanuel College, Cambridge. In 1909, while only 25 he published his first novel, "The Wooden Horse," which met with considerable popularity. Every year since he has produced another book, each of which has been very successful. His latest books are "The Dark Forest," "The Secret City," and the most recent, "Jeremy...
...public cannot be made to suffer continually for the interests of any one group; something must be done to remedy these evils. What must be done is the question on which all classes of society are pondering. Giving in to the strikers at every occasion will not solve it. Recent events show only too clearly that the more the strikers get, the more they want. Crushing the strikes once they start appears clearly impossible due to the high organization and strength of the modern labor unions. But an anti-strike law would not fill the bill. Its immediate result would...
...drift away from the individual course as a unit in education appears in a recent action of the governing body of the Harvard Medical School. In the future, general examinations of a scope much broader than heretofore will be given at the end of the four-year course. The individual courses in the Medical School have always been longer than those at the College; the examinations have been fewer, and more men of high standing have been excused from taking them by reason of a high standard during the year. The step is therefore not as radical...
Gore Hall at present leads in the all-round 1923 interdormitory athletic contest with a total of 20 points, while Smith and Standish have 18 and 16 points, respectively. Gore Hall owes its position to the work of her four crews in the recent races which netted her 16 points...