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...Harvard Club of St. Louis will act as host, and already the general and sub-committees are at work on plans. The general committee is made up as follows: A. T. Perkins '87, chairman; W. L. R. Gifford '84, J. A. O'Reilly '02, T. R. Akin '90, S. L. Swarts '88, C. H. Morrill '98, C. R. Meier '05. The chairmen of the special committees are: W. C. Fordyce '95, transportation and hotels; H. McK. Jones '01, entertainment and dinner; O. F. Richards '00, music; E. H. Angert, LL.B. '99, amusements; G. F. Steedman '92, reception and automobiles...
...leader of American culture, it has come in contact with one of the greatest forms of art of our civilization. Nothing could be more pitiful and blind than for the University to bury itself in books, and pass by an institution which has a purpose so nearly akin to its own. The situation in Europe provides us with an example of what the possibilities are. If any differences exist in the possibilities here, it is that they are greater, and more urgent. Here, more than in Europe, the opera needs backing. Money may be superficially the most important need...
...chief evil of laying exclusive stress upon the degree, and of counting by courses, is that it fixes attention upon the pass mark. In order to correct this impression, and create a stronger desire for excellence, the institution of distinct honor and pass degrees, akin to the practice of the English universities, has often been suggested. Whether it would be wise to have different curricula for honors and for a pass, as in England, is by no means clear. The vital point is the importance which those universities have attached, and persuaded the public to attach, to the winning...
Another article of interest is Mr. Samuel Henshaw's illustrated account of the Okayi, a rare specimen just acquired by the Agassiz Museum of an African animal akin to the giraffe. A criticism, by S. T. M., of the exhibition of the Camera Club addresses itself particularly to amateur photographers. General entertainment is provided in Mr. Stoddard's diary of a youthful would-be dilettante...
...should be suspicious of any tendency to emphasize the spectacular side of Class Day, or Commencement. Both these institutions have been built up for many years by the customs and traditions of many classes, and changing them because we have been presented with a fine amphitheatre is akin to coasting in June because someone has given us a toboggan. In spite of the fact that Sanders is limited in capacity and that the Stadium is so gloriously bountiful in its seating, there are many of us who had rather wait, a good many years for our seat in Sanders...