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...section meeting, which, in the past, has been no exception to the rule that weekly tests are rife with dishonesty, the honor system has eliminated practically every trace of underhanded methods. The opponents of the reform must admit that this is something of a gain. Mechanical, as they say the means are, they cannot deny that the end is reached. Better so-called mechanical methods than the former prevalent cheating...
...case of an unusually versatile athlete who wishes to occupy the interval between football and rowing with competition in wrestling and fencing. In regard to classification it is theoretically and also practically possible for men to make both the baseball and track teams in one season. A simple reform would do away with this unfair situation: a committee, appointed to deal with each case separately, would provide the elasticity necessary for each individual athlete...
...wonderful work accomplished by Colonel Goethals, the death-rate, which in 1906 was 41 per thousand laborers, was reduced in 1908 to 13 per thousand. Yellow fever and small-pox, which had previously carried off thousands of men, were completed wiped out. The money expended in bringing about this reform will be $20,000,000 before the canal is finished, but it is estimated that already over 15,000 lives have been saved because of improved sanitary conditions...
...Andrew, Ph.D. '00, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, will hold a seminary of economics upon "The Suggested Plan for Monetary Reform" in Upper Dane 2 this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock...
...isolated criticisms, many of which are sound, but the generally vindictive and vituperative attitude of the paper toward its sister sheet, the CRIMSON. If it is true that the CRIMSON prints less reading matter than the "Yale News," it is probable, though not yet evident, that reform here is needed. If it is true that the editors stifle criticisms, in the form of communications, here surely they are at fault. Yet in my four years' connection with the paper such was never its policy. And in fact it is absurd to suppose that the paper should do other than encourage...