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...distinction and honors, a trend encouraging and significant. This gain is the sign of one of the nearing objectives in the Harvard academic system. The tendency may be taken as indicative of a desire on the part of undergraduates to take from College more than the common share would allot them. At any rate it suggests that more men yearly are striving, aided by tutorial conferences and the Reading Period, at least to sound the depths of learning...
...That the Government, by increasing its own expenses, had led to extravagance in the state governments. In particular the Agent General scored the system of collecting taxation, which is carried out by the Federal authorities, who then allot a certain share to each of the states. Mr. Gilbert's opinion is that this system in itself leads to unnecessary spending...
...problem of figuring out the handicaps to allot this trio will devolve upon F. V. McGrath, veteran handicapper of the New England...
...method used will be similar to the one inaugurated three years ago. The essential point in this method is its absolute impartiality. Rooms will be assigned by lot, preference being shown to the larger groups. The rooms available are expected to hold approximately 380 men. The committee will allot rooms in such a manner as to hold the maximum number of applicants...
...masculine half of mankind exceedingly dilatory and shortsighted, consistent only in its love of a fight. She finds the pugnacious instinct in politicians so ingrained that every political operation of form or fancy must run the gamut of battle. When women, writes Mrs. Blair, hold a convention, they allot to each delegate an equal number of complimentary tickets, but when men convene politically, they pass through the throes of civil combat to appoint a ticket committee favorable to one side or another...