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France, Belgium, Spain and Brazil have preceded us in similar attempts to gather for permanent preservation all the really excellent work of those artists, authors, sculptors, and architects which the Immortals may deem worthy of recognition. The American Immortals are fifty in number, and form "a comradeship of the leaders of the arts in America". It is the decision of this group that they recognize everything for its esthetic value, regardless of the public popularity or vogue that it may have. In this way only the truly literary and esthetic records of the nation are chosen...
Some time ago the Harvard Corporation and Board of Overseers appointed a joint committee to select a plan for a permanent memorial to the graduates and undergraduates dead in the war. Apparently the committee can't make up its mind, or doesn't deem it judicious, to do so until it knows more about graduate opinion on the subject. Some of the suggested products are curious. A university chapel, to supplant the present Appleton Chapel, for instance. Appleton Chapel is a monument of the '50s. With no disrespect to its worthy founder, it is one of the bleakest and ugliest...
...Shidehara, Japanese Ambassador to the United States, in his article published in our Daily, lays forth what purports to be Japan's policy in the Far East. We deem that it is of great importance that the American public should know the truth about the whole situation. Broad generalizations help us but little; We must resort to concrete facts. With this principle in mind, let us, examine some of the Ambassador's statements...
...consideration to the health and enjoyment of others, it is courteously suggested that, during the continuance of a cold or cough, the owner of this ticket may deem it wise to refrain from attendance at all events of the Philadelphia Forum...
According to a recent issue of the Alumni Bulletin, there is a bill before the Massachusetts Legislature providing that the state law controlling the election of Overseers be amended,--to the effect that the Governing Boards hereafter have the power to change such elections as they deem necessary. This bill is the result of a long agitation in favor of the election of the Overseers by postal ballot. Under the present system, candidates are suggested by a committee of the Alumni Association. These names are then nominated by postal service and are finally voted upon at Commencement by those alumni...