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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...general aspect of the Senior Yard dormitories deserves present consideration. The Christmas vacation affords an excellent chance for Juniors to discuss with the members of their families at home, the advisability of rooming in the Yard next year--in fact it is probably the only such opportunity that will occur for those who live at some distance from Cambridge before they will be called upon to make their decision. Last year the applications for Yard rooms were due from the class of 1912 the day before the mid-year examination period, and it is likely that they will be required...
...English, French, and other foreign nationalities, congregating together at times in great fleets of fishing schooners. These vessels are extremely serviceable and well adapted to their many uses; and, as big gales are very rare, the loss of life at sea is very small. When bad storms do occur at rare intervals, however, whole fleets are sometimes lost, as was the case several years ago when twenty-six schooners were wrecked...
...more than to take a set program and follow it through day in and day out in one's work; it is to take charge of a boys club, or something similar, and put into its training all the originality of the mind, all the original ideas which may occur. The work is made by the worker and is not cut and dried routine. Now, the question is sometimes asked, "What is the use of it all?" In the first place it carries new ideals to the hearts of the unfortunate classes. In the second place it gives the teachers...
...what we consider to be by far the greatest advantage is that all the events incident to the closing of College would occur in the space of a single week. To attend the Baccalaureate Service, Class Day, Commencement, and the Yale races this year, as a large number of graduates from a distance so desire, means an absence of at least two entire weeks. To men from the West this may well imply missing Class Day or the races. The new arrangement, with the addition of the baseball dates, places the Baccalaureate Service (as now) on Sunday, Phi Beta Kappa...
...trial. The class which crowds Harvard 6 was then left without the usual proctor supervision. The result was only as the advocates of the honor system would expect. Not the least sign of dishonesty was detected by a few students interested in the outcome of the experiment. Several deductions occur...