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Today candidates for the various dormitory crews will report and begin a season which always furnishes plenty of good fun and exercise. This crew work is a recognition that boat houses and shells exist, not only for the development of the University crews, but for the benefit and pleasure of all undergraduates. Certainly no intramural sport offers better opportunity for healthful exercise, genuine fun, and good fellowship, and those who are not now indulging in some form of sport will find it well worth their while to join a dormitory squad...
...race ever partake of the interest now attached to a Yale contest, we think that the best interests of intercollegiate sportsmanship are served when Harvard appears on the Princeton schedule. A dual meet in track alone remains to put the two universities on the same apparent relations as now exist between Harvard and Yale...
Speaking of examinations in general, President Lowell in his recent report said: "Examinations are in all cases defective instruments. But in an institution of any size, they are a necessity, and where they exist, their character and scope will inevitably determine in large measure the attitude of the student toward his studies." Our system of regular and make-up examinations is too well known to need explanation here. The following are the four main objections to the present plan and the improvements suggested...
...same time the fact that those most intimate with the conditions have an entirely different view of the matter, forces us to the conclusion that there is at least room for two opinions. In such a serious matter a situation which is even doubtful should not be allowed to exist, if there are ways of improving it. Some claim that the protection is sufficient, but certainly no one can claim that it is the best possible protection under the circumstances...
...Berger has made a personal investigation of the wage question in the United States and has found that the average wage of the working man does not exceed $6.75, while in Lawrence, the textile workers receive less than $6 a week. These conditions exist in spite of the protective tariff which manufacturers claim is primarily to protect labor. Due to the high protective tariff, we are now in a condition of over-production, which forces us to compete with other countries in the world's market, and which is also responsible for our industrial crises, another of which Mr. Berger...