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Coming from behind with a terrific rush, the sapient Scholars continued their baseball triumphs yesterday and frazzled the Funny Fellows to the tune oft 12 to o 10. Lampy's elongated slab-artist tried to uncover come centre-page stuff, and the southpaw catcher pulled as many of the wide, wild throws as he dared; but against the calm, unerring judgment of their intellectual opponents their efforts went for naught. Stellar work in the box by Slater and Wagnerian playing by McLain at short, coupled with most daring steals home by MacVeagh, put the game...
...list of about thirty very desirable short-term teaching positions for Christians are open this summer to men who have completed a college course. Most of the positions are in Turkey and India, but they furnish a wide field of choice. The range of subjects is also large. The experience to be gained is one of the principal features of the work, as the teachers will be expected to take part in the social side of the student activities as well as the mere routine. The term of service varies from two to four years, according to the position...
...Wide ground has been covered by the work of the Social Service Committee during the year past. In all 49 institutions were covered by the 343 workers in this department. Twenty men were sent out to speak to boys' clubs on different occasions while 21 entertainments were provided. Reports were heard also from the University Christian Association, St. Paul's Catholic Club, Harvard-Andover Divinity Club, Harvard Mission, St. Paul's Society, the Librarian, the Treasurer, the Chapel Committee, and the president of the Association...
...social problems presented by the "underworld" of the metropolis. His frank and vivid descriptions of the appalling evils arising from the congested life of the tenements have interested and aroused large audiences of college men at the Northfield Conferences, at Yale, at Princeton, and at other colleges. His wide knowledge of social conditions, his sincerity, and enthusiasm have brought him fame and popularity as a lecturer. In modern life no social conditions are so menacing and perplexing, so much a matter of concern to college men, as those due to the complexity of crime and graft in the life...
...certainly a great source of satisfaction that this contribution to the fund of theoretical knowledge has come from Harvard. As a phase of the application of pragmatic methods, this theory that is so useful and workable will undoubtedly gain wide acceptance, especially since it comes from so great an authority. Such contributions to human knowledge not only gain great renown for the authors, but they increase the fame of the university from which they originate. Great praise is due to Professor Richards for his services to Harvard...