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...warning to the liberal-minded public concerning Dr. Abbot's philosophical pretensions. And my warning takes the form of saying that if people are to think in this confused way. unconsciously borrowing from a great speculator like Hegel, and then depriving the borrowed conception of the peculiar subtlety of statement that made it useful in its place - and if we readers are for our part to accept such scholasticism as is found in Dr. Abbot's concluding sections as at all resembling philosophy - then it were far better for the world that no reflective thinking whatever should be done...
...annual report of the president of the Co-operative Society and the statement of the financial circumstances shows a completely satisfactory state of affairs. A few years ago the condition of the Society seemed rather precarious. Careful management, however, put the organization on a firm basis again; and the exceedingly judicious administration of the past two years has brought the Society to a level far higher than of any previous period. Its financial credit is perfectly established and the Society, as now conducted, is bound to meet with continued and increasing prosperity...
...yesterday the most exaggerated rumors were flying about the college concerning the management of the sale of tickets for the Yale game, and it is due to all parties that an exact statement of the facts in the case be made. In the first place there was ignorance as the exact number of seats put on sale and as to the reasons why more seats were not offered. Of the 4,500 seats on the Harvard side of the field, 1,000 were exacted by the municipal authorities of Springfield before a permit for the game would be issued...
...should be disposed of has been a puzzling question. It has been decided, however, to place them on sale at Leavitt & Peirce's at two o'clock this afternoon on the following conditions: Any member of the University who will at that time sign in a blue book a statement that he has not yet secured a ticket for the game, will be allowed to purchase one of these tickets. No one will be allowed to buy more than one ticket on any condition...
...sport demands a change. There has undoubtedly been great improvement in the game during the past half dozen years, but there is certainly room for just as great improvement in the future. The interscholastic game which was played on Norton Field yesterday afternoon gives weight to this statement, and emphasizes Mr. Leeds' assertion that the 'varsity elevens by their example are teaching the schools the same faults which characterize their own play. The game between the Hopkinson School and the Manual Training School teams was one of the roughest played in Cambridge this year. Nothing is more essential...