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...maintain during the winter the interest in intercollegiate sport, as well as to provide a wholesome means of outdoor exercise, has been arranged by the University management and needs only the co-operation of the students to be successful. In other years such a series of games has been popular, and has filled very acceptably the place which class and scrub games of various sorts take in the fall and spring seasons...
...changes appearing this year, the addition of a home game with the University of Virginia is a popular move. Our relations with this southern college through the baseball team have been very cordial, and to entertain its team in Cambridge will offer opportunity for a return of hospitalities. The omission of the trip to Ithaca will benefit the men on the nine, even though our relations with Cornell are thus made less intimate...
...establishment of this systematic inspection at public expense. It is already rendering a large amount of gratuitous service to the poor in hospitals and infirmaries. It looks forward to a great increase in the amount of this service. The Harvard Dental teachers are already giving free instruction by popular lectures; but the profession as a whole is ambitious to render much greater service in this direction...
...Nominating Committee has very wisely included in its election schedule the provision which was instituted last year in regard to the election of the Secretary with the members of committees. In the life of the class after graduation the Secretary is the most important officer, though in popular estimation the marshalships carry more prestige. By providing that men defeated in the first elections may still be put up for Secretary the range of choice is made to include all the available men in the class...
...popular belief that college ideals are higher than those of the great world outside, for they are less exposed to contact with its rougher aspects. So college journalism, which may be forgiven many mistakes in style and finish, should never be guilty of any least infringement on the laws of propriety. That any publication, issued at Harvard and circulated in the College, should go beyond the bounds which civilized society erects, is an offence not only to those now connected with the University, but also to all who have labored to build up its high standards...