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...rather to be decried that such letters are sometimes written by undergraduates, but it is a serious reflection upon the character moulding influence of our college when a graduate of fourteen years standing offers such a piece of cheap vulgarity...
This year's basketball team will make its final bow of the season tonight in the Newton High School gymnasium in an exhibition game with Tufts. Of the fourteen contests the team has played, nine have resulted in victories for the Crimson. The percentage of wins is less than three-fourths of the total number of games, so the eight men will be awarded only the Harvard basketball insignia, instead of the minor sports "H" which they would have otherwise received...
Again Evangelist J. Frank Norris of Fort Worth, Tex., has been found not guilty of a criminal charge. Fourteen years ago he overcame prosecution for arson and then for perjury, after his Fort Worth Baptist church and parsonage had been burned. This time the charge was murder...
...work this year is being conducted on a plan somewhat different from that of previous years. The underlying idea is to give every man every possible opportunity to demonstrate his ability. With this in mind, there was no effort made last fall to grade the crews. There were some fourteen crews on the University squad at the beginning of fall rowing. These crews had several races of various distances in which every man had an opportunity to show what he could do. Towards the end of the season, a very indefinite ranking of the crews was attempted. Then followed...
...their school days with a factory ever looming in the background will seem open to question. If New England follows the lead of her auto educator she will develop an educational system much like the one existing on the continent of Europe at the present time. A boy at fourteen will have to decide forever his future field of activity. The evils of the scheme are well known. A dwarfed perspective and ill adjustment are too often the results. The American schools are asked to choose between carburetors and the classics. Fortunately New England is conservative...