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Meyer, who is secretary of the Club, has been prominent in former presentations. He played the role of Nelson in the musical comedy, "Close-Up", which was produced last spring. No one has been chosen as yet to fill the part left vacant by Meyer, but no difficulty is anticipated, since the role is a minor one...
...largest in Spain today", he continued, "having replaced Salamanca which flourished alone in the days of the Moors. The students naturally flock to the capital, Madrid, and to the largest commercial center, Barcelona, the result being that only 400 students occupy the tremendous and ancient buildings at Salamanca. One of the most remarkable things about these Spanish Universities is that it is only within the last few years that they have started to teach modern languages. Tied up, as they have been, with tradition, they have taught Arabic, Greek, and Latin as the standard course up to the present...
...Tutoring Bureau is one of the few activities at present conducted by Phi Beta Kappa at Harvard, and it is potentially one of the most valuable ways in which the Society can be of service. It is unfortunate that the Bureau is not organized sooner in the year, but the small number of members until after the November elections is responsible for its late appearance. The aim of this type of tutoring is not identical with that of the coaching-schools that have mushroomed up around the Square. The art of studying is not to be learned the night before...
Some explanation other than the too easy one of undergraduate inertia must be found for the fact that fewer than one-half the men eligible voted in the Senior elections held last Wednesday. Granted that the present generation at Harvard has putgrown any yearning for strenuous political activity, there has nevertheless existed, even in recent year, much more interest in the choosing of class-officers than was manifested by the Class of 1930. The chief reason for the slight vote is rather to be found in the range of polling places and of time for voting. There are two alternatives...
...classroom reading today at 10 o'clock in Boylston 22. Those who do not what to wait until Copey's Christmas reading at the Union on December 17, may join the Freshmen in Mr. Dewey's English A section today, at the time and place specified above, and hear one of the reasons parents send their sons to Harvard...