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...those that dawned last year a certain healthy few are gradually emerging, even in these early weeks at College, from their summer hiding places. Not the least important of the few is the active campaign for a new gymnasium which started so auspiciously last year. The canvass made in the spring showed that the undergraduates were seriously interested in the project. Members of the Class of 1913, who know that they could never use the new building, pledged themselves to its support generously. So with the members of 1914 and 1915. With 1916 the case was different, for there...
...canvass of the Senior class has shown that the lure of business has attracted more than twice as many Seniors as any other occupation. Seventy-eight of the class of 1913 at present intend to engage in business operations as their life occupation, while law with the next highest total has forty-two men. Thirty-four men propose to teach and twenty-six will go into engineering. Sixteen men have elected banking, fifteen chemistry and fourteen aspire to become physicians. Eleven Seniors will engage in manufacturing, ten will be farmers and ten will be ministers. Study, architecture, journalism, diplomacy, forestry...
...class of 1913 asking for information in regard to their most satisfactory and unsatisfactory courses. The amount of time required to fill these cards out is insignificant and yet comparatively few postals have been received. There has always been considerable interest in the Illustrated's annual Senior postal card canvass, especially among the members of the Faculty who are eager for criticisms of their courses. In order to tabulate these results, however, it is essential that we have sufficient data. Seniors who have not already returned their cards will confer a great favor upon the editors by doing...
...write to prospective students during the summer and to establish at least a preliminary relation between strange Freshmen and men familiar with the University; second, to work at the information bureau early next year, in order to help the new men; and, third, to participate in the "fall canvass," interesting undergraduates in the work of Phillips Brooks House and the Christian Association...
...send their names to the Harvard Press Club, 37 Thayer Hall, today. Although two calls for such information have already been made, it is evident that many men have not responded, and they are urged to do so at once in order that the difficulties of a personal canvass may be avoided...