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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...reply to the communication in Saturday's CRIMSON, I, as a member of last year's Red Book board, would like to say a few words. Those who wrote that letter did not realize that the Freshman Red Book is not an expense. Last year's Book cleared $908 over all costs! The cost of getting out the Book was about $3 a copy and only half of that sum was charged to the Freshmen for their copies. Granting that the cuts and printing do cost something, these items do not force the Freshmen to "spend any amount...
...reputation of the team, any active interest on the part of undergraduates cannot be expected. If a mediocre runner in his Freshman year is noticed, looked after, and encouraged by the managers, the chances are good that he will prove a point-winner in his Senior year. Countless letter men have been lost at the very beginnings of their careers because they were given to believe that nobody cared whether the reported for daily practice...
Democracy is not the unmixed good which this letter might seem to account it. If democracy at Harvard would bring about a modicum of tolerance, tolerance of ideas of creed, social standing, intellectual ability, then democracy ought to be our aim. If it would bring about a closer relation of professor and student, a crying need at Harvard, it is true that the experiment of the Freshman Dormitories should be carried further. At all odds, a college less democratic than Harvard is hardly conceivable. JACOB DAVIS...
...have been misleading. This information is, I am glad to say, incorrect. Herbert left England, where he had been in training as a signaling officer for a year, for active service in France on February 16. Since that time nothing but good news has been heard from him. The letter bringing a report of his death must have been sent before he had left England for the Continent. THOMAS H. FISHER...
Every essay offered should be neatly and legibly written or typewritten upon letter paper of good quality, of the quarto size, with a margin not less than one inch at the top, at the bottom, and on each side, so that it may be bound up without injury to the writing. The title page of each manuscript should bear an assumed name, and the writer should give in with his manuscript a sealed envelope containing his real name and superscribed with his assumed name...