Word: writings
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Members of both the Sophomore and Freshman classes are eligible to enter the competition, which will last not more than twelve weeks. The successful candidates will become news editors, and eligible to compete for the managing editorship and presidency. News editors will also be allowed to write play reviews, and the editor assigned to cover a sport will accompany the team on its trips; the crew editor, for example, will be sent to Red Top with the crew this spring...
...intention to write regarding some of the irregularities that exist in the basketball game in various parts of the country and also regarding the ways the conduct of the game could be improved because I believe that with the proper rules and regulations basketball can be made one of the most healthful and interesting of our indoor pastimes...
...living." Unfortunately, Mr. Butler supplies ample contradiction for himself. He regrets the fact that the elementary schools have deviated from their proper business of training young children in good physiological habits, of teaching them the elementary forces of nature, of giving them the ability to read understandingly, to write legibly, to use numbers correctly. These have been pushed into the background "by all sorts of enterprises that have their origin in emotionalism, in ignorance, or in mere vanity." A great deal of what Mr. Butler says about our plumbing for the full and free expression among the school children...
...present there are 333,000 persons in Massachusetts, ten years of age and over, who need instruction in speaking, reading and writing English. Of these 118,000 are unable to write in any language and 215,000 are unable to read and write English. Ninety percent of these people are twenty-one years of age and over. Three hundred thousand men of voting age are unnaturalized...
...pledge cards. Seats (free) are reserved for such volunteers, who should report at the Hall (Massachusetts avenue entrance) at five minutes to eight on the evening of the meeting. Formal dress is not necessary. I shall be glad to have the names of such volunteers before Monday evening next. Write to me at 23 Hawthorn street, or telephone Cambridge 142-W. PROFESSOR R. A. DALY. November...