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Publishers of the Citizen are big shy George Gardner Barker, 26, and blond ebullient Joseph Mortimer Boyd, 20, whom Harvardmen remember chiefly for his seceding from the sedate Crimson (undergraduate daily) last year to start a sensational, short-lived rival called the Journal. Since they started the Citizen a few months ago able Newsmen Barker and Boyd have garnered more display advertising than their stodgy 73-year-old competitor, raised their issues from eight pages to twelve...
Whether to choose Lowell or one of the other Houses was a question which Harvard's 900-odd freshmen found almost as important last week as the question of choosing a college had seemed a year before. Harvardmen now spend their first year in the bare, old dormitories of the Yard, apply in the spring for admission to a House. Their choices (besides Lowell...
...threw the plan first into the Faculty for discussion, then into the Corporation for action. By the time those two bodies got through with it in 1908, Eliot's proposed training ground for public servants had been completely changed into a Graduate School of Business Administration. Most Harvardmen felt then that the nation's service offered too few opportunities for college-trained men, thought that they could better bend their efforts toward "making private business a profession." Under the deanship of rotund, bald, energetic Wallace Brett Donham, Harvard's Business School became...
...Harvard dining hall officials reported that Harvardmen are confirmed milk-guzzlers. A $900 beer license had earned only $521.55 since Jan. 1, each student diner averaging one bottle per three weeks...
...Harvardmen invented the case system of teaching law, deducing legal principles from cases actually decided in court. The Gluecks likewise cite cases of wayward women to exemplify the whole problem...