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...Secretary of the Harvard Alumni Association is engaged in the work of making a complete list of the names, addresses and occupations of all living Harvard men, whether graduates of the University or not. The list of names has been completed and the task of getting addresses and occupations is now under way. One clerk has been constantly engaged in the work for the past two years, and since last May three clerks have been at the task. The names are to be arranged in three ways--alphabetically, geographically, and according to occupation. It will be possible to tell...
...novel, is certainly unusual. It reminds one of Bret Harte, or to compare small things with great, of Goethe's "The God and the Rayadere." L. Simonson's "Death and the Young Man" is a fairly successful attempt at a modern reproduction of the "Dance of Death," a difficult task. There is an atmosphere of weirdness and mystery about the showman and his tent in the great forest; but the author fails to vitalize sufficiently the figure of the young man. "The Inevitable," by E. B. Sheldon, is a pleasing little sketch portraying in symbolic form the passing of childhood...
...indication of what may be expected in the final game, toward the winning of which every effort is being directed. By its showing against the University team in practice, the Freshman eleven has given evidence of great possibilities, but the coaches and players cannot be expected to accomplish their task alone. The hearty support of every Freshman is needed, and the only real way such support can be given is by responding to a man to this first opportunity to watch and encourage the team...
From a Harvard view point the situation promises an unusual amount of interest. A new coach is taking up the task where Coach Reid left off. By two years of untiring effort Mr. Reid succeeded in establishing an efficient system, although judged by the results of important games, its effect was not immediate. We understand that Mr. Crane does not differ radically from his predecessor in his conduct of the squad. He is, moreover, fortunate in his assistants, several of whom are familiar with Mr. Reid's methods. It is in the choice of such men that a head coach...
...admiration" is true--and sad, because it shows that we are willing to applaud without understanding. We know that Russian autocracy is opposed to progress and freedom of thought, and that Mr. Aladyin is a reformer. That he is the kind of reformer whose methods make almost impossible the task of the real reformers, the men of education and high ideals, men like our own President and the members of his Cabinet, we do not stop to think, Enthusiasm for a good cause is an ennobling thing and the more of it we have the better, but we must also...