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...Palmer's letter in the CRIMSON of March 17 is interesting but subject to dispute. His scientific division of the ways in which classics should be taught appears somewhat obscure and doubtful. Why may not a student follow more than one point of view in reading an author if that author deserves such a consideration? When a man climbs a mountain, whether he is a botanist, a geologist, or a mere climber, he must have one look at the vegetation, another at the ground, and another at the vistas about him. If he fails to appreciate any of these three...
...neglected in previous issues the Advocate now feels its duty keenly. Mr. P. G. De Rosay does indifferently well what movies, melodramas, and innumerable short-story writers have been attempting lately, in his "Der Tag." But Mr. Blaine gives us a letter from Germany sent him by Dr. Heerdt who "is in charge of a station for the distribution of French and English prisoners near Frankfort." It is perhaps difficult to agree with Mr. Blaine's introduction when he calls the letter's "sustained note of advice" a "radical" characteristic. But we agree with Dr. Heerdt, though for reasons opposed...
President Lowell's approval of the regulations for the government of the University Regiment drawn up by Captain Cordier gives that organization an official recognition which it had not formerly possessed. The letter of President Lowell and the regulations are published below...
...Lowell's official authorization of the regulations for the government of the Regiment marks the establishment of the organization on a firm footing as a recognized University institution. The rules are only those indispensable to the efficiency of a military body, and they will be fully obeyed in both letter and spirit by all who have not a mere dilettante interest in this work. With the prospect excellent that the Legislature will allow the Regiment to use rifles, it seems that students are to have their wish for an opportunity to learn in a live and efficient body the rudiments...
...members of the party on board the Oscar II on December 4. They were taken first to Kirkwall by the British and Mr. Hudson was the only member of the whole party who succeeded in penetrating into Germany. After seeing the German consul at Copenhagen he got a special letter which admitted him into the empire...