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...whom I haven't even a bowing acquaintance. I realize it is much more my fault than theirs. In the present Senior class there may be a President of the United States; there surely are men who will make big successes in life. I'd hate to have to confess that I spent four years in College without ever meeting, or indeed hearing of such...
...confess our sanction of drunkenness, indecency, lying, disrespectfulness and thieving," writes one correspondent, apropos of the "Beer, Movies, Cigarettes" advertised on the posters of the Sophomore banquet. On the other side, another tells us that "beer . . . changes the yelping minstrel into Caruso," and claims that it is "the only thing that makes a meeting go." Both of these writers are intolerant, and each runs to ridiculous extremes...
...must 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...
Someday, we hope, a Harvard man who has been inspired with the real enthusiasm which Harvard gives so many of us will write his confessions, or rather praises, to contrast them with the views of H. E. Stearns '13 who has confessed in the current Forum. Mr. Stearns finds that Harvard "fails to stimulate the majority of its students to take advantage of its opportunities, that "it furnishes a totally inadequate intellectual discipline, and instead of teaching a man good habits of work and steady concentration, it encourages lazy and vicious habits." He finds that he "has known more...
Detective Burns is probably best known for his phenomenal work in tracking the McNamara brothers and forcing them to confess. As a detective, Mr. Burns should no doubt be placed at the head of the list, in America at least. Being a man who knows his work so thoroughly, and who knows social conditions so well, his lecture should be very interesting...