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...dinner in honor of Professor Palmer. Due praise is given for Professor Palmer's share in the growth and development of the Department of Philosophy, but special emphasis is laid on his "power of the single word, of the patiently adjusted expression, of the gemlike sentence or paragraph." In like spirit of appreciation is the Greek epigram by E. K. Rand '94, in honor of Professor Palmer, given also in English verse by the versatile author. It was a happy thought to write in Greek of one who has been so true an expositor of the Greek spirit...
...front page of the fifth edition of yesterday's "American" is to be found a story headed "Suppress Harvard Lampoon." The first paragraph is six and one-half lines long, yet it contains two inaccuracies and one absolutely false and untrue statement. The paragraph reads...
...their entirety. Contestants in the broad jump were voted an unlimited run, but the take-off must be from behind the scratch line, which was defined as the outer edge of a joist eight inches wide, set firmly in and on the same level with the ground. A new paragraph was added to article 23 of the Law of Athletics, as follows: "A competitor knocking down three or more hurdles or any portion of three or more hurdles in a race, shall be disqualified. A competitor who fouls his leg or foot alongside any hurdle shall be disqualified...
...whichever way we look at it this remodelling is illegal. We have already stated that we consider the proposed altered make-up of the Council excellent, but that is no reason why the new constitution should be hastily and illegally adopted, imperfections and all. The answer to the fourth paragraph of the communication is that the members of the old nominating committee have long outlived their rights as such, whereas the ex-officiis members provided for in the constitution submitted, if it were accepted, would be the most logical body through which to make the necessary nominations. And next...
...expression of undergraduate opinion on the more practical problems of undergraduate life, both in and out of the class-room, the Harvard Illustrated Magazine offers a prize of $50 for an original essay by an undergraduate of the University upon a subject within the field suggested by the following paragraph from a recent letter of Lincoln Sicffins to the Illustrated...