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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...section of Cambridge which lies to the south and west of Massachusetts avenue and Harvard square. The men who belong to these clubs are already provided with loafing places and they are not going to tramp any considerable distance to the University Club, which must naturally seem less home-like than their own club houses. The inevitable result of building the new club too far from the old established societies will be that the social men of the College will stay away from it entirely, the clubless men will attend in a body, and the University, instead of being solidified...
...gifts received during the past year amounting to something over $600,000, and discusses the relation of undergraduate and graduate courses. Heretofore graduates have been barred from courses intended for college students except in a very few cases, and there is a growing demand for a class of courses like those at Harvard intended "for graduates and undergraduates." The chief difficulty lies in the objection to admitting the women in the graduate school to college courses...
...periodicals have lately been started by the students. One, a small weekly paper called "The Examiner", devoted to the criticism in a satirical vein of all manner of undergraduate evils, has already appeared. The other, which is still in preparation, is to be of a humorous character, like the Yale Record and the Lampoon. Another publication of interest to Pennsylvania men is the volume of "Pennsylvania Stories" lately issued, written by Arthur Hobson Quinn '94, who is now an instructor in the college. These stories treat of life at the University of Pennsylvania, after the manner of similar volumes...
...ideal college sport, as the outcome and fruition of play at home, been so fully realized. Never has a college been more loyal to its teams in adversity. Never has a team physically weaker more distinguished itself than in tieing Harvard, and never has heart-breaking defeat like that inflicted by Princeton been endured with more silent dignity...
...discusses a variety of the problems which the colleges of the present century will be obliged to settle. The first is the question as to which is the better college for women, the type of Radcliffe and Barnard which is attached to a university, or the independent type like Vassar and Smith. We can answer the question better when we see what the college can do for women, especially women destined for the higher positions of social life...