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Arrangements are now ready to have members of the Senior Class measured for caps and gowns at the Cooperative Society, which will attend to all ordering and delivering of the outfits. As an incentive to early measurement and to lessen the congestion later in the spring, the price of the outfit will be $9.50 until April 1, when it will be advanced...
...last, after considerable delay, that publication which with the years has grown more and more an essential part of the life of Harvard, the University Register, has made its appearance. Its lateness may lessen its chance for usefulness, but early or late the volume will be gladly and eagerly received by the University community. It is a real necessity for anyone who would keep in close touch with student affairs even though this year there is lacking the geographical directory of students...
...when he granted a mandamus petition to compel the city to issue a license for the proposed birth control clinic, theme of great agitation. Judge Fisher's decision contained these words: " I am loath to subscribe to the proposition that knowledge of birth preventive methods would materially lessen morality. If true, it would be sad to contemplate the weakness of our moral sense." The city will appeal. It contends that there are no non-injurious preventive methods. Some physicians testified to the contrary. The clinic project is supported by many wealthy and socially prominent persons. It will...
...should, however, be strongly opposed to any system which tended to lessen the importance attached to teaching and to lead in any manner to the substitution of tutorial work for the instruction in the form in which we now give it. I do not think that a single course should be removed from the cirriculum. The tutorial system as an addition is a possibility--as a sustitution it is wholly undesirable...
...from the Civil Service Reform League asked the President to issue an executive order whereby the men who had the highest rating in examinations for postmasterships would automatically take office. The present method is to choose from the top of the list. The committee claimed that this would greatly lessen the President's work...