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That next winter the distribution of club and general tables should be as now, and that at club tables of fourteen there should be three extra men, and of twelve, two extra...
...issue. That some such plan was bound to come in the course of time has long been evident. With regard to the details of the plan actually presented, it strikes us that the number at club tables has been put needlessly and dangerously high. Eighteen men to fourteen seats would be a safe proportion. The danger increases rapidly with every further increase in the number...
...general tables. All should be made the same. To have club tables with one man to one seat is the ideal arrangement which we wish might be kept but which we are convinced cannot be. When different men suggest seventeen, eighteen, nineteen or twenty-two men at tables of fourteen seats, they simply express the limit, to go beyond which they believe would seriously endanger the social life. For ourselves, we think that it would be unwise even to exceed the proportion of twenty men to fourteen seats...
From the results of the 'varsity games held at Yale last Wednesday and those held here on Saturday, it is evident that the struggle between the two Universities, when they meet in the track games, is to be severe. Out of the fourteen events to be contested there are not more than four in which first place can be given to either University with any assurance. Every one of the remaining ten events promises to be very close. In their efforts to secure victory, the lively sympathy of Harvard men will be given to Mr. Lathrop, Captain Wheelwright...
...real truth of the matter is that until recently the Scientific School was not an important part of the University and that no one there ever thought of speaking at Commencement. Less than ten years ago, there were only fourteen men in the whole School. Today as it is rapidly growing to be one of the most significant departments, there is good reason for having a representative at Commencement, and we should suppose that, if there was some student really able to be this representative, he would be welcomed by the Committee on Commencement Parts. It is, however...