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...clock in the afternoon in the Quiet Room of the Union. Professor H. E. Clifford will confer with all men interested during the morning hours while Dean Hughes and Professor L. J. Johnson '87 will hold office hours in the afternoon. All members of the University who wish to avail themselves of this privilege may sign for conference periods in a blue-book placed for this purpose on the desk in the Main Reading Room at Widener. This book will remain there until 5 o'clock today and will then be reserved to the Union in order that conference periods...
...wanderlust" gets into everyone's blood to a greater or lesser degree and no Maeterlinck Bluebird idea of happiness or Carlyle gospel of work are of much avail to keep it in check. Once a man gets the desire to tuck his "trouser-ends into his boots" and go off to the far corners of the earth, he will go and continue to go until he develops a definite purpose to hold him back...
...Best '23, Chairman of the Phi Beta Kappa Tutoring Bureau, will hold office hours between 5 and 6 o'clock every day this week at Dunster 26. All students having difficulties with their studies who wish to avail themselves of the service offered can apply at the hours given and tutors will be assigned to them. The assistance is entirely voluntary on the part of the members of the society and entails no charge...
...know, my dear Mr. Editor, that there will be those among the silly serious students who will think my program unduly generous. But, I ask, what avail the compunctions and decorum of five hundred students if a small but determined minority hold the balance between quiet and confusion in their power? There will be these, too, who say this is an attack upon personal liberty. I for one, stand for the autocracy of decorum. --HARRY REIFF '25. November...
...after all of what avail are good grammars and capable instructors if the students have made up their minds before they enter the classroom that they do not like the course, and are resolved not to do the work required, but to take a chance on "getting by"? It would seem that the difficulty lies not with the department but with the supposedly eager seekers for learning who can not force themselves to work in a course they are obliged to take...