Word: papered
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Professor Williston, the first speaker, read an examination paper submitted for entrance to the Law School, and after he had finished added that he felt little communication in making public such an amusing document since the writer was not a successful applicant...
This time at least the Advocate is not careering through space remote from College life; it is a local paper dealing with Harvard questions old and new. The editors pay their respects to the Polo Club, the lecture system, the assistants in English A, and the buyers of printed notes. Two of the five prose articles attack in the good old way weak spots in our methods of instruction, and one shows how alcohol gradually drowns college ideals. Of the two poems, the longer may be called academic...
...despair of the Grand Vizier, the Sultan assents to their suggestion for a splendid ball. The Sultan's difficulty in preparing the entertainment is only exceeded by the trials of Diana, the modern hostess. Owing to the premature publication of the morning paper, the Sultan, reading an account of his own destruction, foils the plotters and brings them to justice...
...pleasant to find that the Advocate intends in the future to pay more attention to the point of view section because a just criticism of college papers has always been that there is usually little suggestion of college about them. In the current number, for example, there are two letters on a subject of direct local and contemporary interest--the new method of assignment of rooms in Senior dormitories, these very letters, moreover, bringing out the point that articles in such a paper as the Advocate should be much more carefully thought out and should be expressed in a more...
...weeks shorter than last year, so that it will end on or about May 26. Last fall, as in the previous year, Freshmen were debarred from the fall competition, so that this is the first opportunity for members of the class of 1913 to try for the paper. By this time they should be well enough grounded in their studies and have found their bearings sufficiently to enable them to take part in this competition without detriment to their work. This is, moreover, the last competition for the Sophomore class, and as the number of men on the 1912 board...