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...last Wednesday's issue of the CRIMSON there appeared an article which, I believe, should appeal very strongly to a great number of Harvard students. I refer to the news item concerning the formation of an Undergraduates' Economics Society. Such an organization should prove of incalculable benefit to the students enrolled in the undergraduate courses. Such an organization will fill a great need here at Harvard. Every day there are questions that come up in the lecture or conference room that, for lack of time, cannot be taken up at sufficient length. Every day events of economic importance are taking...
Each essay should show an understanding of the nature and history of international arbitration apart from and in connection with the Hague Conferences and Hague Court, and may also refer to (or, subject to the above requirement, emphasize) such subjects as the Permanent Court of Arbitration, the proposed Judicial Arbitration Court, Good Offices, Mediation and Commissions of Inquiry, as treated in the "Conventions for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes" adopted by the first and second Hague Conferences, and in the "Draft Convention Relative to the Creation of a Judicial Arbitration Court" agreed to by the second Hague Conference...
...skilled mechanic and the newer type, the engineer. The former is actuated by commercial motives only; the latter, the creation of the advance in natural sciences, possesses knowledge rather than skill and has for his ideal the ultimate benefit of mankind. This latter type is the man we refer to when we speak of the engineer; his profession is engineering...
...expanding Harvard's influence to the social work of the world at large. The council intends to systematize and simplify social service researches by publishing a bulletin, giving an account of the council's current activities and of the material collected, to which other societies may refer, thus avoiding the duplication of work which is now such an impediment to progress. President Lowell has welcomed the plan very heartily, and Harvard has given a room in Emerson Hall to be used as an office. The officers of the council are: president, Dean Edwin F. Gay, of the Graduate School...
Since the writer of the communication descends almost to personalities, we wish to refer him to an editorial in the CRIMSON of February 28, 1878, which denoted our policy then, as now, and which said that editorials represent the opinion of the entire Board and that "there is no such thing as the author of an editorial in the CRIMSON." We do not doubt the sincerity of the committee in question, and our reason for stating that the list of nominees which it submitted was not the most representative possible was, first, because we believed this to be the case...