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...Vagabond is not interested in psychology, it is a dismal subject at best. So it is with great pleasure that he goes today at 12 to Emerson D to hear Professor Lowes talk on Wordsworth, the precursor of the Romanticists. Wordsworth himself, the Vagabond firmly believes, only wrote five poems that can be read without the aid of a bromo-seltzer, but he was the primary influence in one of the greatest literary periods the modern world has ever known...
...discussed over the "anti-religious" attitude of the CRIMSON. I believe that I am correctly interpreting both the editorial and the large mass of opinion opposed to the erection of a memorial chapel in refuting this. Those maintaining that the building of a suitable chapel will be the precursor to a revival of religion at Harvard, even if they are right in their prediction, which I deny, damn their faith by admitting that it is dependent on brick and mortar. With regard to the place, the prospect of a tower higher than that of Memorial Hall to "balance" Widener Library...
Seniors in Harvard College are now eligible to apply for membership in the Harvard Club of Boston according to an announcement made last night following a meeting of the club. This radical departure from the policy of a club is hailed as the probable precursor of movements of a similar nature in Harvard Clubs throughout the country...
...before that the custom of Seniors spending the last year in the Yard is comparatively new. But for some reason there has been no mention of a new tradition, if it can be termed such, which, though having risen from purely individual desire, may be called a true precursor of the House Plan. The past few years have seen an increasing number of upperclassmen solve the housing concerns of their final year by remaining on the Gold Coast. This, to a measure much larger than is apparent at first sight, has been a contributing cause to the destruction of class...
This editorial, a plea to the Faculty invoked by a problem not yet settled, is reprinted from an issue of the Magenta, the precursor of the Crimson, of 55 years ago. At the printing of this, on November 21, 1878, the Magenta had been established one year...