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Upon perusing a room application blank for next year, I was gratified to see a new innovation. Each applicant is now asked his race, religion, and nationality. This is in accord with the best Harvard and American traditions, and the new forms are very much to be commended. Do you not think that we might make a further improvement by seeking more information? For instance, could not next year's blanks ascertain what club each man belonged to, his father's rating in Bradstreet's, and his complete certified pedigree? SEYMOUR B. QUEL '22 March...
...unexpected discovery, however; the work of Sir Ernest Rutherford, Dr. F. W. Aston and others has paved the way for its ready acceptance. Uranium, thorium and radium split up of their own accord. Moreover, many astrophysicists have long believed that the sudden appearance of vast quantities of hydrogen and helium in new stars might be due to an elemental cataclysm of this kind on a gigantic scale...
...defeated, the Brown quintet should excellent team-work, threatening the Crimson basket during the entire first half. The defensive work of the Crimson proved so effective, however, that practically all the visitor's tallies came from isolated shots from mid-floor, while in the second half, the providence five accord on but two fouls...
...moment of jocularity, if all science will now rush in where it formerly feared to tread, if we shall see before long the Entomological Company prepared to say it with insects, for example, we cannot help approving of a plan that will make science prosper of its own accord. At least the formation of the Psychological Corporation does away with the lack of precedent for this rare and highly desirable achievement...
Following this train of thought--if we cannot increase our equipment to meet the demand can we not, Oriental-wise, decrease our demand. Limitation or enrollment, it is true, has not been the policy of Harvard. The reason is that it is not entirely in accord with the tradition of a liberal institution. The idea that Harvard should deprive any one intellectually qualified of access to the opportunities it offers has not been popular...