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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...class, it is a condemnation of the unworthy methods used by all the cliques who desired to see their particular candidates elected. Since the list of men nominated for the Senior officers can never be considered infallible, the democratic right of petition exists for the use of any group of men who feel that a man has been omitted who deserves to be nominated on account of his college record. When this right is used intelligently, there can be no possibility of hostile groups of politicians developing in the class. However, when this right is considered a lawful instrument...
...When the telegram of The Fatherland arrived, asking for a holiday greeting as a contribution to the Christmas number, I was sitting in my psychological laboratory with a group of students engaged in a complicated psychological research. We were just experimenting on some subtle functions of the human memory, studying the conditions under which man remembers and forgets. Some of the results were very queer. We found that the mind does not hold or lose its memory ideas in a mechanical way, but that everything depends upon purposes; ideas which are gathered with a certain aim quickly fade away when...
...there is unfortunately a great deal of foreign criticism is respect to Americans. With the hope of arousing still greater interest in the cause of the Service a booth at the Allied Bazaar has been fitted up with interesting souvenirs of the war, and placed in charge of a group of Harvard men who have already driven ambulances abroad. It is an excellent chance for any member of the University, whether he has an interest in the work of relief or not, to talk the matter over with men of experience and get an idea of the conditions under which...
...election of the first group of Senior Class officers will be held tomorrow from 9 to 6 o'clock. The voting will take place on the ground floor of Phillips Brooks House. The following men have been nominated: marshals, George Ezra Abbot, of Andover; Jarvis Thayer Beal, 2d, of West Newton; Randolph Randall Brown, of Utica, N. Y.; Henry Bromfield Cabot, Jr., of Brookline; Charles Allerton Coolidge, Jr., of Boston; Harrie Holland Dadmun, of Arlington; Richard Harte, of Philadelphia, Pa.; William Henry Meeker, of New York, N. Y.; John Edward Parsons Morgan, of New York, N. Y.; Edward Augustus Teschner...
...funniest manner. There is an alderman who "bosses" town and council and is in turn "bossed" by a Xantippian wife. There is a dapper young insurance agent who undertakes to get his friend out of trouble, and instead draws him into a mesh of complications. There is a group of aldermen typifying various stages of conservatism, churlishness and inebriation...