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...great are his plans for reforms and changes to come. The Faculty, the alumni and the undergraduates respect him for his varied accomplishments in the past and have great confidence in his ability to meet the responsibilities of the future. In welcoming him to his new position, we can accord him no higher praise than by expressing our belief that he will make a worthy successor to President Eliot...
...Smith then declared that his purpose was to teach the men in the University to reverence their brother Americans, because they are true men. We admire courage, and yet accord it but small protection against the "mud" thrown by the unscrupulous newspapers. It is our duty to praise the good and to take little notice of the bad; and it will eventually disappear. Then we can obey the commandment "Love thy brother as thyself" or, in the words of Theodore Roosevelt, "Give every man a square deal...
...sometime assisted in the more or less fortnightly appearance of Lampoon, turn to him always with the best will in the world to be amused. We are loath to be denied and, where we must, eagerly accord the benefit of the doubt. We realize that only spasmodically does he achieve his full destiny of Chorus to this University drama; only too often he is the conventional Vice, with his lath dagger become a slapstick. It is his business to be local and timely; it is our good fortune if he be sometimes sage and witty. And of the few good...
...last meeting of the Glee Club the election of officers, which usually takes place at this time, was postponed to June in accord with a new policy of the Glee Club which was expressed in a change in the constitution. By this amendment the Senior members of the club, who are usually replaced by new men at trials held after the mid-year examinations, will be kept on until June. The Mandolin Club has also decided to follow the same policy for one year as an experiment. The Banjo Club has not taken action on the subject...
...rowed on his class crews in Sophomore, Junior and Senior years, and played on the University football team in Sophomore and Junior years. At present he is a consulting engineer in New York, and interested especially in the development of iron mines. His election as Chief Marshal is in accord with the custom of choosing for that office a member of the class which is celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of its graduation...