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...CRIMSON Building. Hughes' plurality over Wilson at Memorial was only 90 votes. This indicates that the more intelligent vote of the graduate students gave Hughes a small plurality. Since the graduate schools show a wider range of geographical distribution, it is only right to regard their choice as nearer to what the final result will be in the National election...
...Kessner, the Carnegie quarterback, made several long runs around the Yale ends and his work featured that of his team. Wright kicked well for Carnegie and Finlay did good work on the attack, but it was not sustained, and at no time did Carnegie get nearer than thirty yards from the Yale goal line...
...last-named having two each. The Orient, in which Turkey and Egypt are included by speech if not by geographical lines, is represented by 51 students, China having the lion's share of 35. Japan, Korea, India, are the far-Eastern countries and Turkey, Syria and Egypt the nearer ones. There are some eight Armenians in the school but they are already homed in this country and hail from some one of the larger cities and are counted in with Americans...
...Little and Dean Mayo have only the power of recommending their disciplinary and scholastic decisions to Dean Yeomans, who is a member of the Administrative Board, undergraduates ought to feel more willing to regard the Deans as their real advisors and helpers. Also, the fact of the Deans being nearer the students own age will help materially in breaking down that imaginative barrier of non-sympathy for the undergraduate's point of view, which unconsciously the younger generation holds. If this new system does succeed in producing a normal relationship between the student in difficulties and his logical helper...
...days 140 more men must sign up to place Harvard unquestionably in the lead. If 560 men have been willing to sacrifice a month or more of their time this summer, why cannot 140 more do it? Sign up during these last two days, and turn the clock hand nearer the 700 mark...