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With due respect to the economists who insist that the task, under free competition, will fall to the most efficient and that such a result should be welcomed rather than deplored, we are impelled to say something in regard to the marketing of tutorial talent at this season of the year. Granted that organizations external to the student body now control most of the tutoring field because of superiority over the Employment Office, is the condition a desirable...
...with undergraduate departments, the work of the Harvard Astronomical Laboratory, famous in all parts of the world for the valuable results of its observations, is not familiar to undergraduates. The studies of the Observatory might be roughly classified as Position, Motion, Brightness, Spectrum, and Color, all elements in the task of finding, classifying and determining the composition of the heavenly bodies...
These are three distinct types of newspaper stories: the story founded on misinterpreted facts, the story built up by a prejudiced correspondent with a few names and a spiteful imagination, and the story made out of whole cloth by a clever reporter-prevaricator. They indicate the task that confronts the News Bureau...
Saturday morning the CRIMSON took the Boston Herald to task for its misstatement of the prices of rooms in the new Freshman Dormitories. We have since learned that the Herald was not alone in the mistake and that all the Boston papers were glad to correct it when told of the true state of the case. The Herald printed the corrected account in a much more prominent place than the erroneous one and with much more attractive headlines. It is our duty to say that the original mistake was purely accidental and undesigned. The Herald deserves rather thanks for correcting...
...Harvard Graduates' Magazine for December opens with a critique of the "Letters of Charles Eliot Norton," saying, in part, "The editors of these volumes are to be congratulated on having performed their task so well that they have produced the most important memorial hitherto raised to any man of letters. . . . Only Ticknor's Journal can compete with it in variety of interest...