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...therefore commendable. There is no denying that "if Harvard in peace is an object of pictorial interest, Harvard at war is memorable." So, with an all-picture line-up, there is no prose in the first number to criticize except the explanatory editorial on page one, which includes a split infinitive...
...change of the language. Usage makes good English. Professor Wendell found it one of his tasks to impress the fact that usage does not require the sanction of generations to become "good usage" and therefore good English. He never professed horror at such a venial offence as a split infinitive. He was, in brief, eminently a man of common sense...
...mind, and that in the nature of the situation many worthy men must fail of election to them. The problem is not merely a student problem. It is the expression of an inherent human tendency. Maroon a hundred persons on a Pacific island and in a fortnight they will split into two or three groups. The English universities have a college system, and the world in which a man will live is determined by himself by his choice of a college. Many American schools have the fraternity system, notably Cornell, where there are more than half a hundred societies. Where...
...with natural research; associate members--graduates not now connected with the University, but interested in natural history; active members--graduate and undergraduate students of the University. Its aim is to stimulate interest in natural research and to bring together the many subordinate departments of science which has been greatly split up by specialization...
...Pennsylvania at the Cornell-Pennsylvania game, Franklin Field, Philadelphia, yesterday. This invitation on the part of the Yale men of the University of Pennsylvania is regarded by Yale men as an indicated that a Yale-Pennsylvania game may arranged for next fall, there having been no game since the split between the two universities in 1894. Fifteen members the Yale squad made the trip...