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...library officials request an editorial censuring the gentlemen of Harvard who, on these cold winter nights are wont to assemble around the tables in the Main Reading Room and pass the time in the delights of conversation and disputation. Referring to the records of this column we discover that during the last three years a similar request has come from Widener at exactly this time of year. That would lead us to assume that there is something in the nature of the student which makes him react to the depressing influence of impending examinations by exercising his right to fellowship...
...Keep the room doors and windows locked!" is the most urgent request that the authorities make. Although the buildings are watched carefully and the "no trespassing" regulations are strictly enforced, sneaks, variously and skillfully disguised, gain entrance frequently and then, as a result of the students' hospitality in leaving their rooms open, make away with whatever is at hand, be it money, as gold watch, or a saxaphone. To use a lock is a sure and simple way of eliminating such robberies...
...Office is sending to each advisor to grades of advisees who are low in their work, with the request that the Senior investigate the case. This is a good step, but, we hope, only the first one in that direction. As a further improvement we suggest that the Deans should call for periodic reports from the advisors, showing that they have taken a personal interest in each Freshman assigned to him. If the Senior is impressed with his responsibility, and if the Freshman brought to feel that his advisor takes a real interest and is glad to be of service...
...University is to be commended on complying with President Harding's request to observe November 11 as a holiday. The occasion has double significance this year; it commemorates our part in the recent war, and it inaugurates a new attempt to eliminate war--the Armament Conference at Washington. In celebrating the day with fitting ceremonies, it is to be hoped that the people's attention will be turned to the work of the conference, and that sentiment will be crystallized in favor of its projects...
...Manchuria, were among the first fruits of the Alliance. Without the Alliance the result of the Russo-Japanese War would have been different. In 1914, before--Japan mobilized to attack Tsing-Tao, the former German leasehold in Shantung, she called on Great Britain for joint action, basing her request on the Alliance. That was the beginning of this complicated international problem of Shantung, which the iniquitous decision of the Paris Peace Conference has made known the world over. Then the Shantung question started the notorious '21 Demands of 1915, whose contents might not be familiar to the average reader...