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...entries for the University championship games on May 4 will close today. The games promise to be very interesting, as nearly all the events will be close and the results uncertain. This will be the last chance of seeing what the men can do before they go into the annual intercollegiate games...
...remain on a gold basis. - (a) Gold is more stable in value than silver: Jevons, pp. 305, 311-313. - (b) A silver standard would injure trade. - (1) Would produce violent fluctuations in foreign exchange: F. A. Walker, Political Economy, pp. 409-411. - (2) Would render the value of debts uncertain. - (c) The morale of tinkering with the currency is bad: Taussig, 126-127. - (d) Change to a silver standard means another financial crisis. - (e) A silver standard is dishonest. - (1) Injures creditor. - (2) Does not permanently help debtor...
With Harvard's chances in athletics for this spring so uncertain, it is to be hoped that she will not be hampered by finding any member of any of the teams on probation. Whether probation takes him from active training merely, or from an important contest, no able athlete should incur it, however lightly he may count the penalty which he himself has to pay. We speak here only of the athlete, for it is not our purpose to lay down any of the general principles of common sense no less than of morality, which condemn the wholesale neglect...
...have from forty to fifty cases of measles from the last of February to to the end of April. The first symptoms are a cold in the head and a sore throat. Students that have these symptoms should be careful, while the nature of their case is uncertain, to keep themselves isolated as much as possible from their friends. Above all, they should be particular about keeping out of card games of all kinds, as playing-cards are the most ready disseminators of germs. The old ideas of contagion, that there was no danger at the beginning, has been done...
...Banjo and Mandolin Clubs are not as far advanced as the Glee Club. In both clubs the final selection of men is still uncertain and the election of officers will not be held for a week or so. R. B. Flershem is acting leader of the Banjo Club, and J. de K. Towner the same for the Mandolin Club. Each club has learned three or four pieces...