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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...pleasant to find that the Advocate intends in the future to pay more attention to the point of view section because a just criticism of college papers has always been that there is usually little suggestion of college about them. In the current number, for example, there are two letters on a subject of direct local and contemporary interest--the new method of assignment of rooms in Senior dormitories, these very letters, moreover, bringing out the point that articles in such a paper as the Advocate should be much more carefully thought out and should be expressed in a more...
...habit of holding himself at the disposal of any student or any teacher at any time. He was always accessible." To express the source of inspiration which he was to one of his older pupils, who never saw Mr. Ames after graduating from the school, Mr. Williston quotes this letter...
...Boston Museum of Fine Arts is holding a series of conferences on art in the galleries of the museum at 2.30 o'clock on specified days.--Tickets of admission can be had on application by letter to the secretary of the museum. Applicants are requested to specify the conferences they desire to hear in the order of their preference. One ticket only, entitling to a seat at the conference earliest in order of preference for which tickets remain, will be sent in immediate response. A ticket for each additional conference applied for will be sent on the day before...
...committee of the Department of English" will be given this year for a poem on either of the following topics: "The Conquest of the Air" or "Harvard College." Each poem should not exceed 50 lines, should bear an assumed name, and should be accompanied by a sealed letter containing the true name of the writer and superscribed with his assumed name. The prize is open only to undergraduates of Harvard College...
...intends, though it may help to correct the lack of humor and proportion with which this matter is commonly viewed. Even the editor of the "Illustrated" feels called upon to justify the publication of a criticism of football! Both Mr. Cole and W. Lippmann '10, who writes a sympathetic letter, dwell on the spectator's aspect of football, while J. Waid '10 replies with the familiar indorsement of the game as a school for the manly virtues. But the whole discussion loses force from being somewhat vague and sentimental. There is too much regard shown for "the American people...