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...University are constantly undergoing change; the recent extension of the fields in which general final examinations are given, and the change in the number of courses a Senior is required to take, are ample witness that progress is being made. Under such circumstances it is not wholly amiss to consider what advances may reasonably be expected during the next few years...
...reliable Gilroy, the bulwark of the secondary defence who was needed to stop the Crimson rushers who again and again pierced the Tiger line. On the other hand except for one brief spurt which ended in failure, the Princeton attack seemed unable to gain ground, the passes going amiss and even the elusive Lourie seeming unable to break away for any great distances...
...work of this sort, if not taken co-seriously, may even have a purpose. The gentle--or ungentle--critic can be very useful at times, and the theory of anonymous revelation might very will spread farther than the capitals of nations. Indeed, some such thing would not be far amiss, in our own Yard. "Mirrors of U-4", for example, written, by some unknown undergraduate hopelessly enmeshed in official red tape, under the non de plume of "A Gentleman With a Grudge." The time is surely fitting, now that the old order of things in University Hall has passed away...
...Spartan advice that the St. Paul Pioneer Press gives the college senior when it says. "As the college commencement season approaches, it may not be amiss to tell the prospective graduate that education will not give him a sight draft on the world for a good living. The world owes no person a living, educated or not, until he has earned...
Plainly there is something amiss when a society lays itself open to the charge of disappointing its audiences, and misleading, them through their ignorance of its policy. A suggested remedy for this situation is a change in the name of that society, so as to eliminate all possibilities of further criticism. The Glee Club under its present system is rather more inclined toward the choral and the stately anthem than it is toward the rollicking-student song. Were the club to alter its name to that of "The Harvard Chora Society," not only could there be no more doubt...