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...much surprised to learn that not enough freshmen have yet signed for the scratch races on Thursday to warrant any attempt to provide for a race. The freshmen evidently do not understand what a chance they are allowing to go by. These scratch races take place every year; they are nothing new, and until this year there have always been more men on hand than could be accommodated. As we have said before, it is not essential that a man know anything about the science of rowing, or that he has ever even been in a boat-the object...
...have an experienced waiter one can get along well enough, but if one is so unfortunate as to have a new man it is anything but a pleasant place to dine. What it would be if one hundred and twenty-five more men were admitted it is difficult to understand. It would create a hubbub entirely inconsistent with anything like decency, and would be unbearable. We heartily endorse the position taken on the Advocate on this subject...
...vast amount of unnecessary trouble. The building itself is all than can be desired, everything that a complete knowledge of the wants of an athletic team can propose has been put into it, and it is a model of its kind. When it was finished it was accepted, we understand, in the regular prescribed way by the corporation, but, strange to say, all authority over thecontrol of the building seems to have gone to the winds. It is impossible to find out who has charge. The eleven have just seen fit to use the building and find themselves embarrassed...
...action of the committee in refusing to permit the Glee Club to take a trip during the Christmas vacation is hard to understand. We have not mentioned the scheme before this year feeling that without doubt it would pass the committee without delay and never require the attention of the Faculty. We are disappointed at what has been done. It is hardly in keeping with the condition of affairs which, everyone maintains, exists now-a-days at Harvard. It reflects upon everyone in college, for if a group of representative men, chosen only because they can sing, cannot be trusted...
Philosophy is a practical enquiry into the presuppositions of science. It is a subject which engrosses universal attention; nearly all, even the most uncritical, philosophize at times. Its confusing variety, elaborateness and obscurity causes amazement and even arouses the mockery of people who fail to understand why so many volumes have been written, apparently for nothing. Philosophers seem to be struggling with insoluble problems. The answer is that no one can attain a satisfactory conclusion until after repeated trials. Therefore since in Philosophy whole success seems unattainable, a partial one is well worth the task...