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This conception, to which the undergraduates tenaciously cling, is receiving a rude shaking at the hands of three year graduations. With so many Seniors in the Law School our belief in the unity of Harvard College is waning fast. The CRIMSON can think of no greater gift to Harvard than an increase in the requirements, that will assure once and for all the necessity of a four year course; this to be followed by a change in viewpoint among the powers that be, recognizing the pre-eminent position of Harvard College for which undergraduates yearn...
Seniors are again reminded that many class "lives" are still to be made out. Several men seemed to think that the time for receiving them was limited to April 18, but "lives" may be handed in now, so that all may be in by June 1. If blanks have been lost, new ones may be obtained by dropping a postal card to Holworthy 7, or to Box D, Cambridge. G. EMERSON...
...objectionable elements in athletics have been in the shape of regulations by the supervising bodies of the University, and little real effort has been made to apply a remedy from the inside. The realization that the conduct of athletics can and ought to be improved has, we think, been lately brought home to the College as a whole, and we believe that the time has come when the undergraduates are ready to deal with the problem alone, and solve it in a more permanent way than can be done by the enforcement of regulations from without...
...coming back on April 27 to face the most serious athletic crisis in many years. The personal opinions of graduates and undergraduates are going to be of the greatest importance in coming to a conclusion that in the end will be for the best interests of Harvard. Think the matter over therefore; talk with graduates and other men of experience; explain to them why we believe intercollegiate athletics are essential, and why the Faculty believes they should be curtailed. Thus we may be able to arrive more easily at the proper solution...
...Billing's Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland is in three volumes and very rear; and the numerous monographs, and the articles in society publications, about single castles are not easy to know or to find. Not a few of the more earnest readers of the book, would, I think, appreciate a small and unobtrusive bibliography, such as would help them to prosecute the subject further...