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...dreamer of immediate World-Peace who places his faith in the altruism of human nature, must receive a severe shock upon noting the selfishness of succeeding Senior classes. For three men to compile and edit the Class Album is an exacting and difficult task; and the failure of many of those who elected them to spend the half hour's time necessary for having their pictures taken and filling out their lives is not encouraging...
Secondly, the year's work has shown that it is very difficult to interest the average business or professional man in preserving as historical material, private papers and letters which to him seem to have only a family meaning and importance. Of greater difficulty still is the task of sufficiently interesting such men in making a troublesome investigation and reconnaissance of the family vaults or attics in order to sort out and select the kind of material which may be of value...
...grade school days, have suffered in the name of art. A constructive article on the same subject, written by some one who was both a psychologist and a musician, might have considerable, influence at this time. Mr. Hall describes Karg-Elert's organ compositions vividly, accomplishing a kind of task which is at best dfficult. Mr. Appel's description of the part of German universities in musical research has a certain encyclopedic tone which might well be imitated more in American undergraduate publications. Mr. Burke, writing of the Dalcroze school at Hellerau, hardly grasps the full scope of the theory...
...Senior Photograph Committee, when it is elected, is delegated the task of managing the Class Album in the most efficient manner possible. With this as its aim, the Committee has this year awarded the contract for photographs to the most satisfactory bidder. One of the conditions of the contract is that members of the class shall have their pictures for the Album taken by that bidder--namely, Notman's Studio. Consequently the solicitation sent out yesterday by an unsuccessful bidder should be disregarded. To patronize the rival studio for Senior Album pictures is to violate the contract made...
...well be sceptical as to the probable results of such efforts though admiring their purpose. "The transformation of the spirit of a great university is a great task, and the larger part of this task must be done by the students themselves. It may fairly be questioned whether Harvard students are prepared to help create that common college spirit that demands more or less of conformity: whether they are prepared to sacrifice any considerable amount of that precious freedom of the individual which has its great virtues as well as its defects...