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Your issue of Apr. 20, Page 2, third column, asterisk note, the phrase "watered stock" evolved from the practice of this trick by the brother of the original J. J. Astor, not Jim Fisk, as you mention...
...above quotations are taken from the essay printed below, which was submitted in the Crimson essay contest by Edward Brooks Ballard '27, under the title "Harvard's Dual Educational System." This essay, which is one of the two contributions winning honorable mention in the contest, will be followed in the near future by the other, submitted by James Harry Smith...
Honorable mention has been awarded Edward Brooks Ballard '27, of Lexington, for his essay "Harvard's Dual Educational System," and James Harry Smith '25, of Tiptonville, Tenn., for his essay "Harvard's Tutorial System and its Future." Both of these essays will be published at an early date. The board of judges who passed on the 42 essays which were submitted consisted of Professor Bliss Perry, Mr. D. M. Little '18, and Assistant Dean E. A. Whitney...
...winning essay, as well as the two which won honorable mention, dealt with some phase of Harvard's tutorial system. Thirteen essays out of the 42 took up this subject from every conceivable angle. There was one which advocated introducing the European system of instruction; another sought divisional examinations for Sophomores: still another agitated for more creative work in the tutorial field. Other essays demanded a renovation of English A. compulsory attendance at classes, limitation of admission numbers, and a truce from attacking Harvard. Some dealt with a use for Memorial Hall, a system to establish intimacy between professors...
...essay setting forth the policy whose inauguration, in the opinion of the contest winner, would most benefit the University will be published in full. Besides picking the winning essay, the judges, Professor Bliss Perry, Mr. D. M. Little '18, and Assistant Dean E. A. Whitney '17 have awarded honorable mention to two contestants, and their essays will be published in subsequent issues of the CRIMSON...