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...larger work than its present resources permit. Anybody who reads the annual reports of the heads of the Harvard departments is struck by the number that speak of the limitations under which they are struggling on account of lack of funds. The Endowment Fund saved the University from virtual bankruptcy and enabled it to set a scale of salaries for the teaching force which is among the highest in the country and which may be considered not unsatisfactory: but as Harvard grows, so do its needs, and despite the generosity of the graduates, those needs are still legion...
...least objectionable modes of getting atmosphere would be the resort to dialect, if it were not now so much over-worked. The trick justifies itself, however, in the four pieces of fiction included in this issue because of the dexterity with which it is used. Mr. Behn produces the virtual effect of dialect, in his "Translation from the Navajo", by a well arranged introduction of Indian words and by an imitation, in the direct discourse, of Indian simplicity of speech. But why does Mr. Morrison, in "Leaves and Fishes", cause his interlocutor suddenly to perform the impossible feat of abandoning...
Seldom, if ever, has the general attitude of the nations been more propitious for permanent disarmament. No such argument, however, will ever prove effective unless all the contracting parties are sincerely in favor of it. The failure of even one important state to cooperate means the virtual negation of all the efforts of the rest. Fortunately, at the coming Conference there will be represented but one country which might be thought to favor disarmament half-heartedly or not at all. That country is Japan...
...other three backs on the Holy Cross team besides Wallingford are Simendinger, Gagnon, and Riopel. The first two named of these are likely to prove most dangerous to the Crimson. If the work of the linesmen is a virtual draw today and the backfield play decides the issue, the eventual outcome may well depend on how Simendinger's punting compares with that of Fitts. The former has been booting some lengthy spirals in practice lately and is well qualified for a duel with the Crimson left-footer...
...many instances, but it is rapidly coming into greater favor. Students and educators are both realizing that the college athletics, the college papers, the musical organizations, and the dramatic societies, all are invaluable supplements to the academic work of the institution, and in many cases might be made virtual laboratories, rather than competing interests...