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...opinion, is undeniably intended to influence the Athletic Committee to act in accordance with the Faculty's wishes. It is probable that no final action will be taken either by the committee or by the Faculty for some time, but as the latter have complete power, in the last resort, to regulate the participation in athletics of students in the College, the Graduate School and the Scientific School, there can be little doubt that in the end their wishes will have to be acceded...
...last spring it proved impossible to find room for the accessions without removing from Gore Hall a large number of the old books. Accordingly 15,000 volumes were boxed and piled up in the cellar of Appleton Chapel, - a humiliating expedient to which the Librarian was simply forced to resort. The same thing will soon have to be done again. No sooner were these books boxed up than some of them were urgently wanted. Gifts and purchases taken together bring into Gore Hall at least 10,000 volumes a year, besides many thousands of pamphlets, and there...
...circumstance, but the facts bear out such a judgment. The teams are so evenly matched in ordinary play that, leaving the punting out of consideration, they are likely not to score at all, or else to play a tie game. Accordingly, the side which is stronger in punting will resort to it constantly, and in that way force the other side to punt. The result will be that eventually the side which punts best will gain solely on exchange of kicks and finally score...
...examinations by their aid do not do the work for which the Faculty gives degrees. While it is perfectly true that seminars might be rightly used, and may perhaps be so used by one man in twenty, the fact remains that to most men they stand as a last resort in case their regular work is neglected. That the existence of this last resort tends to the neglect of regular work is undeniable...
...these 265 are sold; the total number of two dollar seats is 216, and 192 are sold; the total number of three dollar seats is 833, and 483 are sold. The total number of applications was very fortunate since it made it necessary in no case to resort to any substitute order, and, at the same time, the number of applications is so large that it will make the occasion thoroughly Harvard...