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...detailed work in a business-like manner. The energy of this short campaign, which will end tomorrow night, is sure proof of the active interest which has been demanded of under graduates. The final two days' spurt in the campaign will bring the new gymnasium a great deal nearer existence. And much of the credit will belong...
...which seems so distasteful to the writers of the communication. But we do not admit that in the meantime 1917 must go uncanvassed. Graduate action, of course, cannot be taken until the undergraduates have come somewhere near their goal; but holding up the Freshman canvass does not get us nearer...
...first of these was from Economics 9 which is being conducted in New Lecture Hall. Men on the outskirts of the audience, being fairly well in the open, have not had cause to complain; but men in the lower seats nearer the centre of the room have found the air stuffy and disagreeable...
This latter development of the agitation seems to come nearer the root of the matter than has any before it. The concensus of opinion, if there was any concensus at all, of the letters which followed Mr. Bok's attack on colleges in the Outlook last summer was that the blame for poor English lay, not with the colleges directly, but with the preparatory and even grammar schools. It is true that it was generally believed that colleges were tending to encourage other studies at the expense of English, but, as far as the principles of English technique were concerned...
...that the 1913 Harvard team needs the services of an accurate punter. The University team, aside from showing a lack in this department, gave very little idea of what may be expected of it ultimately, for it was at no time hard pressed, the visitors never getting nearer than the 25-yard line...