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...opening paragraphs of the report commend the adoption of the plan as an opportunity for individual work on the part of students' who possess the necessary initiative, and for writing and research on the part of instructors who are now restricted by academic duties in attempting any such activity. The greater freedom afforded instructors by the adoption of the plan will, in the belief of the committee, tend in time to attract to the University teachers of the highest type...
...CRIMSON sees no reason either to commend or to deplore the results of the ballot. The response reveals that the project was not sufficiently attractive to gain adequate support. Therefore it must submit to at least a temporary halt. There are, however, other avenues of approach to this problem. Eventually there will come a change in eating habits in Harvard University; realizing this, the CRIMSON has tried to prepare for that change. That its essay has not met with success is in no way a proof that its efforts have been misdirected...
...intent to review Mr. Lowes remarkable study at this particular time nor in this place. It does wish, however, to indicate the gratefulness with which "The Road to Xanadu" should be accepted by undergraduates of the university-undergraduates especially because they are the ones who are least likely to commend painstaking research and those who are quickest to dismiss anything scenting of long labor as being pedantical and therefore unworthy of enthuslastic praise. Here is a book which had its origin among dusty shelves but which by virtue of a creative mind, tuned to analysis, has been transformed into something...
...commission a review matters, with which under our system of law the regular judicial machinery is incapable of dealing, differs in no essential respect from the appeal to the King's conscience out of which our present system of Equity has grown. Even if such a commission should rec commend a pardon it would not over-whelm or discredit the finding of the Court. The commission would, like the Chancellor's Court, fill in a gap which the common law has left open. The creation of a Court of Chancery has not exhausted the power of the Sovereign...
...request that you will give credence to all that Mr. Massey may represent to you in our name, especially when he shall assure you of our esteem and regard, and of our hearty wishes for the welfare and prosperity of the United States of America. And so we commend you to the protection of the Almighty...