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This plan is only a temporary make-shift, and it has been some years since the crews have had to resort to it. although in former years they have used the Farragut Boat Club's house, this year they are unable to do so because the snow crushed in the roof and made the boat house unfit for present use. As soon as the Charles is open, however, the crews will resume regular practice without the inconvenience of going to Lynn...
...York of the present time. Miss Crothers' comedy is in three acts and narrates the story of a young girl from the West who comes to New York to make her fortune. She takes up quarters at a fashionable boarding house, "39 East," where only the "best people" resort. There are very many quaint and unusual characters in the comedy...
There is a minority of undergraduates to whom the routine of study is a positive joy. But for the majority, studying remains a chore; something to be turned to as a last resort under the stress of compulsion. A thesis or examination is like a disagreeable pill which one avoids taking until the last moment, and then swallows with one gulp and forgets as soon as possible...
...vexed questions now facing the country as the result of the conflict between capital and labor; its only real constructive force is that it aims to create special industrial courts to decide industrial matters. Such a system would bring us nearer an equitable settlement of disputes without resort to strikes. But an industrial court is not enough; definite principles in the form of a code are needed. The conference did not show where the line is to be drawn between industries whose maintenance is essential to the life of the nation and in which strikes cannot be tolerated, and those...
...singing at Saturday's game of the parody song to the tune of "Meow" that has been practiced at recent mass meetings. Harvard has plenty of good football songs which are the equal, if not better, than those of any other college; it does not need to resort to cheap words set to a popular tune to sing at its games. It is a pretty bad state of affairs when Harvard has to go to the dance halls to find a football song. If "Harvardians," "Soldiers Field," "The Gridiron King," and the "Marseillaise" will not be songs enough to sing...