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...leading article, "Debating at Harvard University," Mr. E. R. Lewis sounds an alarm to more than the merely inevitable candidates for this branch of activity. He urges men of wide interests, as well, to participate. His plea is undoubtedly earnest and timely, though one could wish that what he conceives to be the greatest benefit from debating--the mental training--had been less dully expounded. In these days, when undergraduate parlance is so largely composed of indiscriminate, dis-jointed burlesque, assuredly much should be made of any pleasurable exercise which is likely to create real mental fabric...
...week, and the CRIMSON will doubtless take pleasure in according to the Review a hearty welcome. This Review has been partially endowed by the bequest of the late Miss Mildred Everett, made in order to carry out a plan suggested by her father, Charles Carrol Everett, deeply respected and widely influential as scholar and teacher in Harvard University for more than thirty years. In advance of his generation, and through his wide survey of the spiritual life of mankind, Professor Everett recognized that religion has been man's supreme interest. He saw, too, that the degeneration of this interest...
...Review, two motives may be expected to exert their influence. The first is the interest excited by suspicion. We have heard of the Presbyterian Elder who usually slept during the sermon when his own minister was the preacher, but who, when a stranger occupied the pulpit, remained wide awake and keenly alert. He gave as his reason for this change of attitude, his assurance of the soundness of his minister, and his conviction that when a stranger came, he needed watching. There are many dormant minds to whom this Review with its new and unknown character and possibilities will supply...
...Germanic Museum has received as a gift from the city government of Nuremberg, Germany, a cast of the relief of the town weigher from the facade of the Wool Merchants' Guild Hall of that city. The cast, which is about six feet in height by eight feet wide, will be mounted on the west wall of the museum...
...city of Boston. Starting from a terminal point in the Fenway near a small lagoon a new avenue in honor of the scientist Louis Pasteur will lead up to the middle of the Medical School quadrangle. This avenue will run through the centre of a parkway 120 feet wide, and will be shaded by a row of trees on each side. At the junction of the parkway with the quadrangle of the Medical School a suitable entrance will be constructed...