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...competition to choose songs to be sung at the Yale football game on November 20, starts today. All members of the University are urged to compete. Contestants should remember that such songs need a good swing, limited range, and sensible words, to make them effective. Songs should be sent to F. L. Foster, Holworthy 17, under an assumed name, before noon on November 1. The real name of the composer, together with his assumed name, should be sent in a sealed envelope to the Harvard Song Committee, Holworthy...
...made of real advantage if men of musical ability will give time to the composition of effective tunes and appropriate words. Most of the songs which we now have are the product of former competitions of the same sort, and though they are excellent, there is a real need for several new songs of singable quality...
...each man for himself, in what measure he will avail himself, in what measure he will avail himself of the provision which is thus made. Nothing is more obvious than that large numbers of students, who by no means lack sympathy with religion and who would acknowledge their own need of that aid in their religious life for which the Chapel stands, do yet, in the multiplicity of other interests and their failure to hold themselves to a fixed habit, lose altogether the advantage which they might derive from sharing in the public worship of the University...
...tone of having elected a course in natural science, which he feared was narrowing. Such a state of mind is certainly deplorable, for in the present age some knowledge of the laws of nature is an essential part of the mental outfit which no cultivated man should lack. He need not know much, but he ought to know enough to learn more. To him the forces of nature ought not to be an occult mystery, but a chain of causes and effects with which, if not wholly familiar, he can at least claim acquaintance; and the same principle applies...
...Great University Comie." This prophecy so modestly expressed, may be only a pious hope; let us humbly pray, however, for its fulfillment. The writer of the editorial has expressed a divine truth. Rejuvenation is exactly the variety of transformation which, we should say, was the Lampoon's most crying need. We do not ask for great originality. The College field is too limited. We merely plead that some-one endeavor to lure from the verdant spirits who have not yet fallen under the hypnotic influence of the established and irresistibly comic sources of our University humor, some joke, some drawing...