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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...doubtless feels a natural hesitancy in taking such a step, for fear of putting Yale in a false light with other institutions. But there is possible a point of view even higher than that, which would consider the case in the light of pure justice, justice not of the letter but of spirit. The University does not presume to offer advice to Yale; but, since the matter is not yet settled, it may be worth while to set forth the attitude of Harvard...
...view of the comment which has arisen over the action of the Student Council in suggesting a student waiter system at Memorial Hall the following letter from Gordon Ware '08, Secretary for Student Employment, to the Alumni Bulletin is of especial interest...
...Massachusetts Institute of Technology has made a study of the scholarship standards of the various classes, and reports some interesting results. An investigation extended over a number of years shows that members of Greek letter fraternities at Technology do as well in their studies as the average. The second year exhibits an average of scholarships at Technology that is below that of the first year, the third equals the first year's average, and the senior class average is the highest. That the second year should have a showing lower than the first is not unexpected in a school...
...Fields a bit of the 'Uncommercial Traveller,' selected, it is likely enough, by that inveterate joker, because it revealed his method of literary composition when he was having the greatest difficulty in phrasing the narrative to suit him. From Whittier came the manuscript of several poems, together with a letter suggesting that one of them is of a class of poems of mine which are rather un-Quakerish.' Thackeray is represented by a bit of the 'Roundabout Papers,' Sydney Smith by his 'Letter to the Pennsylvanians' who had repudiated a state loan, and George Eliot by 'Agatha.' Charles Reade...
...volume of 'The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats' has on the title the autograph of Leigh Hunt. Into it Hunt pasted a bit of manuscript written by Keats, a letter in which Coleridge expresses a preference for sausages over a mutton chop, and one from Shelley which originally covered 'a check for (within a few shillings) the amount of your bill...