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...Hall. Lack of proper ventilation, combined with the action of chemicals, makes the atmosphere unendurable long before the hour has elapsed. The course that meets here is necessarily large, for it is required for further study in several departments. It is an initiation to the Medical School that should render its sufferers absolutely impervious to disease. Possibly with more stimulating and less drugging of the senses, Chemistry 1 would not distribute each year its high proportion of wretched marks...
...Novels of Religion" is a praiseworthy effort in criticism, and the conclusion reached by the writer is a sound one. One feels that he is not quite able to express fully the effect produced upon him by the perusal of "The Christian" and "The Saint"; that he strives to render clearly the differing value of the two books, and does not quite succeed; but one also feels that he is on the right road and that with more experience of life and a larger knowledge of literature-for which he plainly has love-he will do good work in this...
...Upper Congo region of Africa has been placed in the Union office. To anyone who did not hear Mr. Clark's bloodcurding narrative no wards depict the cuetly and the inhuman tortures by which these wretched beings are compelled to slave for King Leopold of Belglum, which would render practical unattainable the cause to which Mr. Clark is devoting his life work, that the pettion has been started. If enough mon can be induced to sing, it will be forwarded to President Roosevelt, as a formal protest from Harvard against a tyrany, the like of which has never furnished before...
...control, as well as the cool reception which some extensions of courtesy have met with at the hands of certain visiting teams, have tended to make the entertainment of these teams a very uncertain quantity. It is true that the size of Harvard and the diversity of interests here render impossible the sort of a reception which a smaller college could offer; but the present condition of affairs is due rather to irresponsibility of managers and lack of well-directed assistance than to any fundamental fault...
...then, to be sure an event screams through the decorous stillness: witness the last Brooks House afternoon tea, which took the form of an "informal memorial, service" to the late bishop. But such oddities are rare, either pass, unnoticed, or, as in this case, are much as to render caricature in bad taste...