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Following the custom of last year, an individual canvass of the Freshman class for the purpose of securing subscriptions for the new Gymnasium will be made this fall. The canvassing will start tomorrow and will last for one week. Freshmen are urged to contribute as freely as possible and to maintain the high standard set by the freshman class of last year...
Following the custom inaugurated two years ago by the class of 1915, the Freshmen will hold a class service at 7 o'clock tonight in Appleton Chapel. The class will be addressed by President Lowell, Professor Palmer, and Dr. Fitch. This service is held in order that the new men in College may learn from the head of the University, from a lay member of the Faculty, and from the President of the Andover Theological Seminary, just what Chapel means to them and what it stands for to undergraduates in general. All first year men are expected to attend...
Professor von Dobschuts writes on "Die Harvard-Zurufe;" and it is safe to say that our cheer has never before been so learnedly treated. He compares it with analogous customs recorded of the synod held in Rome in 499 A.D., and with the organized cheers with which the people greeted the Emperors in mediaeval Byzantium. The performances of our cheer-leaders at the Yale game he finds interesting as making more creditable the records of these ancient instance. A propos of his questions as to the age and origin of the Harvard cheer, the Advocate might well take a hint...
...will not go into effect before the spring of 1915. The motion to allow any except the Senior class to have a class button was defeated. The movement in favor of such a button was started by the Sophomore class some time ago but it is thought that the custom should remain a distinct Senior tradition. An amendment to have the Freshman president a member of the Nominating Committee of the Student Council was passed...
...combination of the mightiest of the mighty. Yet what do they all avail? The Western theorist's team is an all-Western team with a couple of easterners as a sop to eastern criticizers, and vice versa with the eastern theorist, only here it has been the custom to have at least a majority of players from the critic's own college. It is all so much wasted effort. Those who could do the best job keep quiet; conditions of the past have changed and the authorities of a dozen years age are no longer unquestioned. Football this year demonstrated...