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...realized that the construction of a river park and embankment along the Charles River was essential to the scheme of public parks. A committee reported in favor of a dam, but nothing further was done. For the past three years, however, the project has been under serious consideration, and during the winter of 1903 Governor Bates appointed a committee, consisting of President Pritchett, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Hon. H. D. Yerxa, and Hon. J. B. Holden, '71L., to direct the designing and construction of the dam. This committee has supervised the completion of plans and specifications...
...your editorials in your issue of today is based upon a gross error which is a serious injustice to one of the class crews. I refer to the statement that "the fact that the 1905 class crews has been beaten in a brush over the regular course by the Newell 1905 crews shows that the men left over from the first choice who went to fill the club boats are not greatly inferior to the first crews...
...April Monthly is serious, almost depressingly serious. Almost every article, prose, or verse, holds up to view, or for review, a moral theorem, from W. V. Moody's "Pandora" singing the resistlessness of non-resistance (or something like that) to the editors lashing the lax yet elastic conscience of collegiate youth. The conscience of the Monthly is not lax, nor means it "to while away idleness in pursuit of those things which are not of the spirit...
Decidedly the number is serious, and should be taken seriously. Procul este, profanl...
...single attempt at verse is an effort to translate Goethe, too serious a task for the undergraduate at best, and in this case, although courageous and not without merit, unsuccessful...