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...been treated by exchange professors. None, however, can be more germane to present problems of economics, philosophy, and history, as well as science, than the lectures on evolution to be given by Prosor Caullery of the Sorbonne during the second half-year. Such phrases as "the survival of the fittest" and "the struggle for existence" have been thrown to the front anew by the embroilment of mankind in Europe. Men would do well to bear in mind Professor Caullery's two half-courses before making their selection. They are primarily biological; yet they should throw some light on the eternal...
...Class Smoker as it is today represents the survival of the fittest method for bringing a class together. The most ineffective form of smoker is that at which men stand with a few friends, eat a few crackers, drink ginger ale, and stare at every one else. The most successful form of smoker is that at which a certain amount of entertainment is provided for, and at which the different men are drawn informally into a general enjoyment of everything. This form has not as yet, however, come to anything like its full realization. To any that have attended these...
...towards coach or equipment. Thus out of 30 odd original candidates but a dozen remained--simply because they could not or did not care to assume this expense, an expense the members of no other team are obliged to bear. It is, then, no longer a survival of the fittest, but of the longest pocket...
...plume system and the fourth year since the competitions have been open to all men in the University. At least six songs have been selected for first trial by the Committees of former years. At the second mass meetings the number was reduced on a survival of the fittest basis. At the final mass meetings the two best songs were practiced and both used at the Yale game. The song most successfully used at the Yale game won the competition...
When the Harvard Memorial Society was founded in 1895, its chosen object was "to perpetuate a knowledge of the history of our University, and to commemorate the great men who have been teachers and students here." One of the fittest ways to do this seemed to be by the annual services which had been held in Sanders Theatre on Memorial Day since 1892. Originally it had been intended that the exercises should be under the auspices of each graduating class; but the difficulty of establishing a tradition made it advisable to put them in the charge of a permanent organization...