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...petition of Representative Arthur F. Blanchard '04, of Cambridge and Van Ness H. Bates '19, for a state investigation of the University will be placed before the Senate and House Joint Rules Committee this afternoon immediately after adjournment of today's session...
Late yesterday Representative Blanchard stated that he had received a statement from John Jay Chapman '84, which will be read as evidence. Mr. Chapman, whose recent article was partly responsible for the action which has been taken by prominent University graduates, gives in the course of the statement, concrete evidence which is most favorable to the proposal...
...student body still smarting under the conduct of the administration toward Professor George Pierce Baker many of the charges which Mr. Blanchard makes will appear eminently justified. In so far as his efforts are motivated by a genuine desire to keep the ideals of the University above those of a, commercialized America they will react with approval only. But the student body can not commend his procedure. He is fighting an evil--vague, intangible, conjectural--with a far greater evil--concrete, threatening, and ever sinister...
...surrender the University into the prying, meddling hands of an ever changing legislature is in effect what Mr. Blanchard and his associates would accomplish. The fear that a University administration will make itself subservient to big business interests is not one whit as terrifying as the thought that the machinations of logrolling of a typical legislative body can finally be made to control the destinies of Harvard...
University undergraduates and alumni play a prominent part in the fancy skating acts which will be introduced during the course of the Carnival. N. W. Niles '09 and Mrs. Theresa Weld Blanchard, pair skating champions of the United States will give an exhibition of their skill between the periods of the hockey game, while several students at the University, including P. A. Escher '27, renowned Swiss skater, will perform a surprise number. Miss Mirabel Vinson, national junior singles champion, will also give an exhibition of fancy skating in a singles act. There will be several other numbers of great interest...