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James MacKaye '95 gave the second of a series of five lectures on "Political Engineering" before a large and interested audience in Emerson Hall yesterday afternoon. His topic was "The Happiness of Nations." Happiness cannot be defined, but may be exemplified by experiences. Voluntary acts are divided into those which are useful and useless; useful acts are subdivided into productive and consumptive ones; consumptive acts, in turn, are divided into positive and negative, and productive acts into pleasurable and pleasureless ones. Productive acts are further subdivided into compulsory and spontaneous acts...
...cannot be denied that the spirit of this rule is almost never complied with in football games, though the audible coaching of players is a rare occurrence. When every substitute who is sent into a game bears a message to the team, and when, as sometimes is the case, the only reason for a change of players is the opportunity for giving instructions to the quarterback, there is a very evident departure from the intent of the rule. Frequently, too, instructions are given as in baseball by the position of a coach or player on the bench. Given two teams...
...been customary to hold vesper services on Thursday afternoons between Thanksgiving and Easter. The service consisted of a musical program and a short address by a well-known preacher. Whether the lack of such a service will be felt keenly enough to warrant its re-installment another year cannot now be foretold...
...least and even chance in the big game. We believe in the determination and ability of the players--every man of them--and it remains only to strengthen their self-reliance and make them feel that the University is behind them. The existence of this attitude cannot be doubted, but whether it is brought home to the team, or not, depends upon the turn-out today for the mass meeting and parade--the last chance we shall have to see the team practice before Saturday. It is disgraceful enough that the graduates have has to point the way in showing...
...misused every year by a select body of men. Some few use it regularly without being members, though every means is taken to prevent it. The rest use it once in a while; and both seem to think it a joke, or think nothing about it. But mere thoughtlessness cannot explain it away, nor can it be given as an excuse." These men should be reached by Mr. Lunt's summing up of a true and remarkably well-written article--by the final paragraph in which he suggests that an attempt should be made to realize what Harvard would...