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Very few of the present Senior Class have ever heard of the great Harvard professors who became famous in the nineteenth century,--such as William James and Josiah Royce. Another man who ranks with these is Professor George Herbert Palmer, who has consented to conduct the Class Day services in Appleton this year. The talks which he gave to the Seniors on Class Days before 1917, when he retired from the position of Class Day Chaplain were among the most impressive events of the week...
Etchings by Meryon, Zorn, Whistler, Raden and other nineteenth century artists are now on exhibition in the Print Room of the Fogg Museum, to remain during the summer. Many of them are lent for this exhibition by Horatio G. Curtis of Boston of the class...
Playing on the Rhode Island Country Club, Saturday afternoon, the University golf team defeated Brown by the score of 8-1. F. McN. Bacon '22 and Lincoln of Brown played the closest match of the afternoon, Bacon finally winning on the nineteenth green...
Throughout American history the settlement of claims upon foreign powers presents a lamentable succession of evasions and procrastinations. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, restitution for French spoliation of American commerce was ultimately assumed by the United States itself in connection with the Louisiana Purchase. The final decision on the Alabama claims was not rendered for a decade after that famous vessel began her depredations upon our Federal shipping during the Civil War. In that American claims against the British government for seizure of goods in the first part of the European war are still pending, there is danger...
...just because Harvard is traditional in its point of view that it is misunderstood, and often deliberately so, by Americans. Tradition to many is a synonym for Reaction; and yet the tradition of Harvard has always been liberal. From the days of the bitter church controversies in the early nineteenth century, through the recent war, Harvard has stood for Liberalism in a much more truthful way than many of the great or small colleges that profess to be open to "all the people." When one recalls that the first active collegiate Socialist society was founded at Harvard some...