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...lift the orchestra out of its traditional rut of popular music, and to put more of the classic and serious modern music into the season's repertoire. By thus affording to students the opportunity for serious study of master works, it is believed that the orchestra will come nearer to fulfilling its proper place in the University...
...London is making a wise and clear-sighted move. The horror and devastation of war falls suddenly upon a community and much suffering can be avoided if aid can be rushed to the scene immediately. When an appeal has to be sent out across the ocean or even to nearer countries, valuable time is necessarily lost in gathering together the resources...
...body of undergraduates on a subject directly opposite to that of last night. At the time of the excitement over the Mexican situation, the policy of keeping cool, and "keeping our shirts on" was freely advocated. Now we are to take a necessary precaution when the war cloud is nearer than ever before. It is the desire of everyone that mankind be so organized that war will be an impossibility. But to be prepared is no more provoking war, than it would be to abolish the police of Boston, or any superior governmental force the object of which in every...
...question which has been discussed by students this year has brought forth so many speeches, communications, and editorials as the subject of summer camps. Even beer did not raise so great a storm. Nor has interest subsided. It has, on the contrary, grown more acute owing to the nearer approach of vacation, the time men must decide how they are to spend it. New international situations have arisen; and the issue between pacifists and militarists is even more sharply drawn...
With this new stimulus toward better and newer things, and again taking the lead in influencing the serious dramatic activities of the universities, the Dramatic Club is one step nearer a most desirable goal,--the day when it may become a powerful source of material for the stage of the nation. We welcome what is undoubtedly the beginning of a new epoch...