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...Freshman eats outside his own dormitory. The registration of Freshmen in years before the dormitories, exceeded 200 and thus a pretty large hole is cut out. Fortunately, however, the tendency each year is toward a decided increase from the available student body which has now mounted up sufficiently to counteract the loss of Freshmen. The enrollment is growing so rapidly that a waiting list again this year seems inevitable...
...would not be diletanti we are thus of necessity specialists. No modern system of distribution denies this. It attempts instead of counteract the consequent but inevitable danger of narrowness (which Mr. Burke quite properly emphasizes) by insuring the student against intolerant ignorance of other fields than his own, and by insisting on breadth of culture as the best basis for concentration. But if Mr. Burke's hypothetical undergraduate, with his atrophied power of choice, necessitates nothing less than a complete retraction of elective ideals, rather than the retention of their best elements in a synthetic reform, the whole problem...
...cohesive class-spirit, the continual breaking up of classes into cliques and groups, which hardly knew each other, and were about in the frame of mind to regard each other as enemies, found that it was not necessary for the College to sit by helpless and do nothing to counteract the evil tendency. Hence came the decision to put the entire Freshman class on an equality as to living accommodations, and to see to it that groups from the big preparatory schools and large cities did not flock by themselves...
...held in a private club. The relation between the club and the Debating Council is purely a business one, established because the club was able to offer better accommodations at a smaller price than the Union, where these dinners have always been held. The Union was founded largely to counteract the influence and necessity of private clubs. It seems strange that the Union, with all its superior facilities, cannot serve its purpose in this particular instance. Such a condition should be investigated and remedied. HERBERT B. EHRMANN...
...other papers, the new plan will place the Harvard publications within reach of all the students in secondary schools, so that those interested may secure accurate, first-hand information regarding the life and the opportunities which Harvard offers. In this way, it will be possible to some extent to counteract the influence of inaccurate and distorted news of Harvard life that is often printing in the daily papers throughout the country. To rectify popular impressions of Harvard, and to awaken in men in far distant parts of the country interest in the opportunities offered here are the two main purposes...