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...engaged in destroying our forests or wasting our water supply. But it is an exceedingly difficult thing practically to work out a scheme of conservation. And this was just exactly what Messrs. Garfield and Pinchot did. Their work was done not only with zeal and disinterestedness, but with the utmost efficiency. They actually put into practice as working principles the theories which a great many men, including I myself, for instance, thoroughly approve, but which were reduced to action in satisfactory shape for the first time by these...
Undergraduates may not always spend as much time as they should in poring over their books and perhaps they do not attend their lectures with the utmost regularity, but whether they be students or not, men resent having their time wasted by others. To this they are obliged to submit in many of the weekly conferences which are common here, especially in history and economic courses. In these courses it is customary to devote half of one hour each week to a short paper on the assignment of reading and to spend the remainder of the time in discussion. Such...
Besides silencing one of the chief objections to intercollegiate athletics in general, the football squad established a precedent of the utmost value to future teams, and a mark which they can earnestly and proudly strive to equal or surpass...
...candidate for distinction or a contestant for a scholarship, marks are of the utmost importance. The result of the condition outlined above is to force such men to take courses in which they will not meet graduate competition. This is manifestly unfair, for it limits in their choice of electives those men to whom their courses are of greatest significance...
...challenge R. C. Seaver, the state champion, N. W. Niles '09 defeated H. Johnson, 6-3, 6-0, 6-4. Johnson was unable, during the first two sets, to solve Niles's service, but the last set was close and Niles was forced to exert himself to the utmost in order to win. Last year Niles was defeated in the fourth round. F. J. Sulloway '05, who challenged Seaver last year, was put out in the first round this year by A. Sweetser...