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...coin tossed up enough, times will eventually come down heads. To make examination schedules equally attractive to everyone is obviously impossible. But the popular idea that the names of the various courses are put on individual slips of paper, and the examination dates drawn by lot in a sort of orgy in University-4, is far from the fact. The actual plan of arrangement is based on two considerations. First examinations in courses mainly for Seniors and graduate students are placed early in order that the grades may be returned, in time for Commencement. Second, the whole schedule is made...
...first duty of the Church Cooperation Committee is to sort and send to the various churches the denominational lists, as compiled from the registration blanks at the beginning of College. By means of these lists the churches endeavor to keep in touch with the men of their denominations during the year; they aim, if possible, to have every man called upon personally at least once. J. F. Stearns '22, Chairman of the Committee, has taken an active part in this work. All the seven Harvard Square churches have been given such assistance as was possible...
...work of foreign missions and to secure men for positions in other countries." An effort has been made this year to make up a list of all the available positions in foreign work, to keep in close touch with men who are interested in foreign work of any sort, and to arouse the missionary interest of Harvard men in all possible ways...
Altogether "The Mirrors of Grub Street" is a very creditable job. I hope to see The Advocate try it again, with a wider scope, a more serious program-and perhaps a sharper blue-pencil. Meanwhile I am, free to say that to the common or garden sort of outsider, who has been hearing-and sometimes saying himself-that the colleges are not turning out writers of good English, this display affords a most encouraging answer. Indeed, there is apparent in most of this collection a degree of literary finish and sophistication which some weary old hands might envy and emulate...
...Classics have not yet fallen undefended. This change has come in spite of arguments and defenses prepared by learned men of every sort. Scott called success without classics climbing a wall when it was possible to present a ticket at the gate. The value of a classical education has been extolled in many books and supported by the statements of business men, lawyers and even engineers who strongly advise any man considering his profession to study the ancients. Everyone quotes the story of the man who had nothing to fall back upon after becoming rich, as the threatening damnation into...