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...ought, in such a club, to be made subordinate to the stimulation of an interest in debating for its own sake. As close a relationship as possible should be maintained with the departments of English and of public speaking, and the subjects discussed should occasionally at least be of local and contemporary significance. If in the attainment of these objects the social needs of the members be also recognized, the Freshman debating club should make an important place for itself in the life of the class...
...selection of a Rhodes scholar from Massachusetts for the term of three years beginning next October will be held today and tomorrow at the Harvard Medical School, Longwood avenue, Boston. Candidates who take the examinations must pay the supervising examiner a fee of $5 to meet the local expenses of examination and selection. Candidates who file a certificate of exemption must pay a fee of $1 to the chairman of the committee of selection at the time of filing the certificate...
...suggestion of Kipling, but more in the story than the style. The author could well try rewriting The Coward many times; at the end it should be very effective. Corners in York, by Mr. Huckel, describes a ramble in the old English city under the guidance of an eccentric local character. It is well told. It takes some lines, however, for the reader to decide which York is meant, the only New York, the English city, or the old English settlement in Maine. Mr. Schenck contributes a story, Fate and the Traitress, novel in situation. The reader is quite taken...
...forty years this month since President Eliot faced a task like that which now confronts President Lowell. In those forty years the college of local fame has expanded into the university whose name and influence are known to all the world. The problems of the large institution are different from those of the small college; but we are confident that President Lowell will reach their solution as wisely and as certainly as his great predecessor overcame the obstacles of the last administration...
...forty years this month since President Eliot faced a task like that which now confronts President Lowell. In those forty years the college of local fame has expanded into the university whose name and influence are known to all the world. The problems of the large institution are different from those of the small college, but we are confident that President Lowell will reach their solution as wisely and as certainly as his great predecessor overcame the obstacles of the last administration...