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Christmas receptions and entertainments cannot entirely compensate for the inability to spend the holidays at home. The good will which prompts them, however, and do much towards giving those who must remain in Cambridge over the recess a breath of the Christmas spirit. No less than four entertainments have been arranged for such students. On Christmas Eve President and Mrs. Lowell will receive members of the University at their home; on Christmas night, Phillips Brooks House will keep open house; on December 28, the Harvard Club of Boston will hold a smoker for undergraduates at the club house...
...almost unanimously believed by the coaches of the Freshman team that the reason for the defeat was the shortness of the 1918 schedule. Four games cannot serve to give a number of men, who have never played together before, enough experience in actual outside contest, to round them into a compact and efficient unit. It is generally expected that this will be changed next year...
...radioactive sources consists of a mixture of at least two substances, of which one is ordinary lead. The foreign substance must be very similar to ordinary lead and very difficult if not impossible to eliminate by chemical means; for many precautions were taken to purify the samples. This substance cannot be identified in the ultra-violet spectrum of the material, either because it has the same spectrum as lead, or because it has no spectrum in that part of the field, or because its spectrum is masked or absorbed by that of the lead...
...confess in reviewing the Christmas number of the Lampoon, if it is possible to review or summarize so heterogenous a publication, that the tone of the whole number is decidedly humorous; in fact there is hardly a serious page in the large issue, a state of affairs which I cannot condemn too severely...
...matter cannot be overlooked. The officers of a body of 700--officers elected by that 700 itself--are automatically made the greatest internal force of the "demos"; not only, I think, for the first year, but, if with a decreasing influence, throughout the College course. With a candidacy of two, electors will vote on reputations. But such standards fluctuate, and are at best a flimsy foundation for an important super-structure...