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...system of seat allotment for the Pennsylvania game is well calculated to give the best seats to Harvard men and to keep tickets out of the hands of speculators. However, if a man has applied for seats and finds at the last moment that he cannot use them, what can he do but sell to a speculator? Last year the Yale football management, in order to prevent the sale to speculators of tickets for the Yale-Princeton game, offered to accept at face value any tickets which, for personal reasons, could not be used, if returned to the office...
Graduates of the College who are taking courses in any department of the University may apply for Pennsylvania game seats either on a graduate's blank, or on an undergraduate's blank, but cannot apply on both...
...classes meet in Harvard 1; the twelve o'clock Thursday class meets in University 20; all the other classes in Holden Chapel. Men who cannot come at the hours appointed for them may make special arrangements by speaking to Mr. Copeland at the beginning or the end of an hour. Advanced pupils will be considered later...
Professor Lowell compared the methods of filling higher offices in this country and in England and said in part: Places of importance cannot always be filled by competitive examinations and it is in filling these positions that England far surpasses us. There experts are selected who retain their positions permanently irrespective of party. Wherever the position requires the formulating of a policy, there is a lay politician but all the real work is done by the expert. In this country experts are employed only on the Bench and in the army and navy, and this is why our higher political...
...this tell of it as a refuge for the sinner, as a triumphant emblem of faith? Surely this faith is the real thing, worth having, not the power to analyze that of others. Science has its place, but it has also its limitations. For one thing, the spiritual life cannot be weighed or measured by science; the pure in heart alone...