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...elected vice-president of the Union, will introduce President Lowell. Because of the general desire evidenced by the undergraduates to hear the president, the Governing Board of the Union decided that this last event of the Union season should be open not only to members, as has been the custom with previous speakers, but to all the University...
...fact, but there are usually no more than two men in a thousand capable of understanding poetry. There are many hypocrites, to be sure, who pretend to understand verse and who join an exclusive Browning cult, but this is done in order to conform to custom. The poet is born, not made. He has within him the 'urge of the eager' which needs no routine training. In college the poet is usually shy, for an individual is repressed, but the type advanced. You have a very good school of young poets here in America. Vachel Lindsay in his poem 'General...
...fifty-fourth annual dinner of the Advocate will be held this evening at 7 o'clock at the Harvard Club of Boston. About forty guests are expected, including a large number of graduate editors and the present board. At this occasion a new custom will be introduced, that of initiating the recently elected editors at the annual dinner. The candidates taken on will give the usual initiation play. Winthrop Wetherbee '87, senior member of the Board of Trustees, and H. S, Ross '13, chairman of the Board, will speak, the Rev. E. R. Shippen '87 will sing the Advocate song...
...failure of the annual collection made by the Seniors from the Freshmen indicates either that the class of 1923 does not appreciate the importance of this custom, or does not realize that the cost of Senior picnics; like everything else, has increased. Two hundred and twelve dollars is worth less than half what it was before the war, but even at its face value, the sum is the least that has been collected in any recent year. The fault does not lie so much with those Freshmen who were present as with that large portion of the class which...
...final stage of the academic career of the 1920 class began yesterday when their group picture was taken on the steps of Widener. Today the historic custom of wearing caps and gowns to morning classes will begin, and all Seniors must appear so garbed, except on Sundays, until Commencement...