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...years ago, Harvard held an informal boxing match with M. I. T. This meet was highly successful from every standpoint, but the undergraduate members of the committee defeated the plan then proposed for making boxing an intercollegiate sport at Harvard...
There is a serious deficiency in the administration of books reserved on the open shelves in the Main Reading Room of Widener Library. These books may be taken out Saturday evening and not returned until Monday morning. Such an arrangement is quite admirable from the standpoint of abstract liberality, but is necessarily harmful in frequent instances where examinations are held early in the week, and one student has control for two days of several books important in the course. Probably this situation arises rather from the neglect of the individual instructors than from inefficiency in the Reading Room itself...
...once arose a judicial question: What was the value of the "smell" testimony of a Senator who knows nothing about liquor from the standpoint of personal imbibation? Does experience as a chemist qualify him as an expert on alcoholic odors? It was pointed out on the Senate floor that gold paint smells like bananas but it is not bananas...
...savages, ascetics, Roman lawyers, Manichaean heretics, Teuton romanticists. All of them, says he, are based upon the idea of indissoluble connection between coition and conception, which is practically no longer true. Showing the disastrous effects of this makeshift state of affairs, he then considers various other possibilities, from the standpoint of the state, the child, the adult. His own proposal goes a step further than companionate marriage-as the family is of importance chiefly to the child, a man and woman should not be considered bound until her first pregnancy...
Football interest, from the undergraduate standpoint, has not decreased since the days when I was in college, nor has it increased particularly. The immense growth of stadia during the last few years is due, rather, to excited alumni and a football-crazy public," said the Reverend Frederick May Eliot '11, of Saint Paul, Minnesota, preacher this week at Appleton Chapel, when asked to compare his impressions of Harvard at the present time with those received in the first decade of the century...