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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...regular as the delivery of the college mail. Besides this, the books are generally listed at extremely high prices, which is obviously necessary in order to pay a large commission to the agent; and, moreover, students are regularly prevailed upon to buy books for which they have no particular need. This is especially true of Freshmen before the glamour of their new surroundings has worn off. Doubtless this shortsighted policy of patronizing these agents has come about from the convenience of paying only $3 per month or some similar arrangement. With the facilities now afforded by the University Library there...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences announces that two scholarships will be awarded, shortly after the beginning of the second half-year, to Freshmen who are deserving and in need of assistance. These two scholarships are the Scholarship of the Class of 1867, and the Mary L. Whitney Scholarship. In awarding the Scholarship of the Class of 1867, preference will be given to children or grandchildren of members of the class. This scholarship has an income of $175, and the Mary L. Whitney Scholarship an income...
Number 5 of the Varied Outlooks is by Lee Simonson '09 who recognizes a great need of college men today,--enthusiasm. He also sees that more opportunities should be given them to bring this characteristic into play. One cannot help feeling, however, that there is an underlying plea for socialism, and that perhaps the author might be guilty of misdirecting enthusiasm, of building his palaces on sand. Such is his implied suggestion--that it is far more important for us to understand Shaw and Wilde than Milton. Perhaps he himself does not enough understand the eternal greatness of such...
Esperanto was born, said M. Privat, in a little Prussian village where a boy named Zamenhof lived about the middle of the last century. This boy saw the need of a universal language because of strife and misunderstanding that arose between people of his native village who spoke four different languages. When he grew up, he formulated an artificial language, Esperanto, but met with little success until 21 years ago. Since then, interest in the new language has grown steadily, and today there are over 700 Esperanto societies and more than 400 magazines spreading the language over the world...
...lower East Side of New York City. Mr. Denison is endeavoring to interest people in the work of all of the Boston city settlements, and to act as a central station by which the people of the Church are brought into connection with the points of greatest need...