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...Massachusetts Peace Society offers three prizes, $100, $75, and $50, for the best essays on topics relating to "The Substitution of Law for War" in the settlement of international disputes. Honorable mention will be given for essays reaching a certain standard of excellence. Topics suggested by Norman Angell's "The Great Illusion" will be considered by the judges. Essays should be in the hands of Dr. J. L. Tryon, secretary, Boston, not later than tomorrow...
...evident fact! Consequently its value as a link between graduate and undergraduate life is doubtful. Yet if it can exist only through admitting graduates--which is rather incredible--by all means keep it as it is. Better debating with graduates included than no debating. Whatever the final settlement, however, the facts remain that intercollegiate competition of teams under widely different eligibility rules is bound to be unsatisfactory to all parties concerned, and that there exist at present inconsistencies between the triumvirate debaters...
Nothing so impresses one with the wonder of this country as to delve into its early history and draw comparisons with the present. The same is true of the University, following the country's fortunes almost from the first settlement. So it is not amiss, on the 150th anniversary of the burning of Harvard Hall, to read the quaint letter of President Holyoke's daughter, and realize the changes of so many years. Apparatus estimated at the value of fifteen hundred dollars, five thousand books and pamphlets-the largest library in America-and some furniture were lost in the Harvard...
...Yard for the purpose of carrying heat to the College buildings will be definitely decided before the Board of Aldermen on Tuesday, January 13. The project was discussed at length before the board at its last meeting and every phase of the question gone over preparatory to its settlement...
...half of the class showed that it was interested in some form of community service. Practical politics was the most popular form of service, having 78 adherents, while public school athletics was next with 23 voters. The other more popular forms in order were; legal aid, church work, social settlement work parks and playgrounds boys' scout work and the juvenile court...