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...Harvard Monthly wants to welcome tonight every Freshman, Sophomore, and Junior who has a live interest in economics, athletics, literature, politics, or social questions of any kind. In short the Monthly wants to talk over its policy for this year with every student who can write and has something to write about...
There are signs of change in the Harvard Monthly besides its new form. It is nearer the normal magazine in shape; its decorations have grown more seemly; but that is not all. The October issue shows an excellent and largely successful attempt to achieve the live yet dignified spirit of a good monthly review. Quite evidently the Monthly is through, for a year at least, with being a literary safe-deposit vault. Under the new board it appears bent on emerging from those purple shades where the pleasant but inconsequent art of canning the "best literary product of the University...
Professor Richard Cabot, of the Medical School, author of "What Men Live By," will be the principal speaker of the evening. Professor Cabot is among the foremost American authorities on both the practical and theoretical sides of social service, and will present some of his views on local conditions Tuesday. Mr. R. W. Kelso, Secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of Charities, will tell stories gained from personal experiences with social problems, and will enumerate some of the fields for student volunteer work...
Harvard College has also had innumerable escapes from fire losses, because of the prompt extinguishment of fires started. The commonest cause of fires in the dormitories was the falling of live coals out of the grate piled too high to keep the fire during some long absence of the occupant of the room. Many fires have been started in the College buildings by students' thoughtless practice of throwing matches and the ends of cigars or cigarettes into waste-paper baskets; but these sudden flames are as a rule put out quickly, because the chances are that the fire will start...
There will be informal speaking and a discussion of a plan to organize a regular society to hold annual meetings for men who have at any time been connected with Oxford or Cambridge, and that now live either in this country or Canada. The interests and vocations of students of the two universites are closely connected and such an organization should be welcomed...