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...following statement was sent to the Crimson from the Library: Much annoyance to users of the Library-has been occasioned by the acts of certain persons in abstracting or concealing reserved and reference books. The Library authorities having taken steps to discover such transgressors, a member of the Senior class was caught, and he has been subjected to due penalty by decree of the Faculty. The general body of students, who have been the chief sufferers in this way, may be congratulated on the prospect of a close of such proceedings...
...statement in the last Crimson that an elective in U. S. History would not be given next year was a typographical error...
...last issue, we spoke highly of the choice of subjects of the Natural History Society lectures, and after listening to the first in the series, we can only add praise to our previous statement. The subject, "The Function of Great Men in Social Evolution," aside from being of general concern and importance in itself, was treated scientifically, and in a way that gave it peculiar interest. Not the least pleasing part was the seeming ease with which Dr. James met and refuted some of the opinions set forth by Herbert Spencer in his Sociology. The Natural History Society...
...authority of a statement that appeared in our last issue has been questioned. In the article entitled "The Physical Examinations" we denied that there was a prevalence of heart complaint in College, and stated that of two hundred and fifty men only two were afflicted with that disease. Our information was obtained from Dr. Sargent, and upon further inquiry we are fully sustained by him in our position. We reiterate the statement that coffee-drinking and cigarette-smoking have not caused a prevalence of heart complaint among Harvard undergraduates...
...decision of the Police Commissioners, not-withstanding the report to the contrary, was favorable to the Phi Beta Kappa, and the policeman was censured for unnecessary violence. The eye-witness did not support the officer's statement that he was a???culted. The society has obtained all that could be expected from the Police Commissioners; but it will not let the matter rest here, but will carry the case before a higher court, and it is to be hoped that this will have the effect of checking the numerous outrageous misrepresentations of Harvard which appear in the Boston press...