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...lacks in veteran material is made up for in the fighting spirit of the players. Upon this spirit the University team must depend to win the game. Opposed to a heavier, and, from past results, a more successful team, our chances for victory may appear slim. We can but await the outcome with the hope that a strong adversary will make our team play as it has not played before. Success in the contest should put us in a position to play Yale next Saturday on even terms. If we lose today, the result is not altogether decisive...
...vital interests of the parties. The Declaration of London, not yet accepted, embodies a set of rules by which such international disputes shall be decided. The latest step in the same direction was taken last spring when the Taft administration opened negotiations for the peace treaties which now await ratification by the Senate. These treaties will make it binding upon the nations that sign them to arbitrate a still larger proportion of the disputes that may arise...
There is needed in the University, a central clearing house for lost and found articles, in charge of one responsible official. Here objects could be left to await an owner, and here the owner would always apply. Much confusion might thus be obviated and advertising would be unnecessary. Such an office could easily be established in the cloak room of Gore Hall; the location is central and the attendant now in charge is burdened with no very heavy duties. The extra expense could amount to but very little, while the value of an efficient and well recognized lost and found...
Meanwhile we await, not without trepidation, that other statistical table, which shall tell us what are and what ought to be the rewards of intellectual distinction among both teachers and taught. With the two tables before us, it may be that we shall be able to tell what are the relations between a business point of view and a high intellectual ambition...
...that he holds for the value of musical comedy to our civilization but more significant is his suggestion of its exaltation to a higher plane. Is it not true that the two peculiarly American dramatic forms, the mu- sical comedy and the melodrama of the Grand Opera House, simply await a master's hand in order to be transformed into literary genres of enduring worth? Mr. Nickerson would have strengthened his argument if he had indicated the possibility of developing the spectacular side of musical comedy into the work of art that it was in the plays of Aristophanes...