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Assistant Professor R. T. Fisher '98, of the Department of Forestry, spoke before the Forestry Club last night on "Reminiscences of Field Work in the Forest Service." In 1899 Professor Fisher was commissioned to do some exploration work in the forests of Washington. The task consisted in making a trail into sparsely settled country which was supposed to have timber-land suitable for a national forest, climbing all the mountains that offered points of advantage for making rough maps of the surrounding territory, and plotting out the general topography on a township...
...article entitled "The Freshman" published in the last "Outlook" Dean Castle has contributed an enlightening exposition of some of the influences to which a freshman is subject before and after entering college. He scouts the idea that the innate badness of the freshman soul is responsible for the downward trail that many take in their first year. "The true reason," he says, "is the innate goodness of the freshman soul, its untried, untutored purity." Although he blames the home training that has not gradually educated a boy to the use of his liberty, he accepts on the part...
...Grimes's thoughtful sonnet "The Beaten Trail," Mr. Greene's graceful translation "From the French of Rousard," Mr. Seegar's very melodious "San Cristoval," Mr. Gilkey's "Song," containing a poetic idea, Mr. Reed's charming "Melisande," and Mr. Thayer's ambitious "Midnight"--these together, one is happy to see, attest a widespread power among Harvard students to write finished and fine-spirited verse. More sustained effort is manifest in Mr. Hunt's adaptation of the delightful Middle-English lay "Sir Orfeo." This rendering--of which half is postponed to the December number-- is of striking excellence. Mr. Hunt employs...
...second trail for candidates for the University debating teams, which will meet Yale and Princeton in the triangular debate on March 26, was held in Dane Hall last evening, and the following twelve men were retained" I. K. Lewis 3L., H. von Kaltenborn '09, J. H. Picken 1G., W. A. Cole '09, D. Haar 2Sp., L. J. Whiteside 1L., S. f. Peavey 3L., E. R. Burke 1L., G. I. Lewis '09, C. H. Raymond '10, H. L. Loomis 3L., t. M. Gregory '10. The judges were R. W. Kelso '04, M. Leckner 2L., and Mr. A. P. Stone...
Following is a summary of the trail heats Friday...