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Each summer finds a great many Harvard men traveling through Europe, but, though their routes often cross and they may be almost within hailing distance of one another, it is only by the merest chance they meet. There is absolutely no reason why Harvard men should not have some regular means of meeting one another. The CRIMSON believes that this can be accomplished by a compilation of the information contained in the above blank when filled out, and earnestly requests that all men intending to go abroad this summer send in the necessary facts at once. These will be published...
Each summer finds a great many Harvard men traveling through Europe, but, though their routes often cross and they may be almost within hailing distance of one another, it is only by the merest chance that they meet. Few who have not experienced the occasional lonesomeness and home-sickness that comes to a traveler in a foreign country, with a strange language and strange customs about them, can appreciate the real joy produced by meeting a friend from home, and most especially a college mate. There is absolutely no reason why Harvard men should not have some regular means...
...primarily for graduates." We wonder what has become of those excellent courses, English 8a and 8b, in which the romantic poets of the nineteenth century might be studied. It is true, English 28 and English 41 are open to undergraduates, but their field is so extensive that the merest glimpse of nineteenth century literature...
...known New York politicians and showed that such men can be defeated only by the increasing efforts of upright men. The help of all honest men is needed in politics when public life has become so degraded that it is necessary to argue with men on questions of the merest honesty and decency as was the case in New York...
...last number of the Advocate contains little of real literary value. Six of the seven prose contributions, none of which are over two pages in length, are the merest sketches, and, with possibly one or two exceptions, do not show much originality. The only article of any length is a most appropriately titled story, "Love-in-Idleness," by W. W. Justice, Jr. It is interesting and well-written, but it gives the impression of being an outline more than a finished sketch. The incidents are not worked up, nor is there enough action. On the other hand, the writer...