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...chosen to co-operate with the Treasurer and lead the class organization after graduation, as well as committees to assume the enormous task of managing a successful Class Day, but a permanent Secretary must be elected who in every way must have shown his fitness to assume the wide duties of that office...
...Winthrop has had wide experience in this branch of government service. Both in the Philippines and in Porto Rico he has been in position to know the situation as it really exists and what is the best policy to pursue in the government and education of these peoples. His talk this evening should prove of interest to those who have followed at all the government's policy of expansion and who are interested in the insular possessions...
...support to measures directed to the moral well-being of the students. He was an earnest advocate of his convictions, and steadfastly loyal to his ideals; nor did the unpopularity of any policy cause him to abate his ardor in its defense. His intellectual, as his personal, sympathies were wide. His glad recognition and generous encouragement of merit endeared him to workers in many fields. He was a just censor, a wise counsellor, not sparing of himself if he might help others. His critical instinct was distinguished for its delicacy, his taste refined to severity, his judgment clear and sober...
...Nations," published in 24 volumes and contributed to by the most eminent historians in Europe and America. He has also written many articles of importance for classical and archaeological magazines. He was at one time secretary, and later president, of the American Philological Association, his work bringing him into wide acquaintance with the other great philologists of America. For ten years he was editor of the American Journal of Archaeology; he has likewise edited the Classical Quarterly and the Classical Review. Two years ago he gave a series of lectures at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens...
...much confidence may reasonably be taken in the remark made by a man of wide football experience after Saturday's game, "That is the best Harvard team I ever saw"? There is no denying the fact that the exhibition of all around football displayed by the University team against Carlisle was noticeably better with the exception of kicking and handing punts than that of any Harvard team as far back as the present board can recall. The most conspicuous element and the most gratifying was the ample evidence of strategic football brains and it was quite as much a triumph...