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There is food for considerable thought and perhaps amusement for some members of our community in a suggestion recently made to the CRIMSON for doing away with the disadvantages which are associated with intercollegiate sport at present. Why not increase the number of games played during the term in each sport so that the interest aroused will be nicely spread over a whole term rather than have it come in one prolonged explosion at the close of the football season and to a less degree the baseball season? The interference is that there will not be enough enthusiasm...
...which Robert Luce '82 has chosen to treat under the title "Harvard Men in the Massachusetts Legislature." He finds that over 100 Harvard men have served the State in the last ten sessions of the legislature and from them have come several of the best political leaders of the present. An article of historical value is "Cambridge and Harvard College in 1817," by Charles Warren '89. It is a description of Harvard University at the period when the winter store of wood was brought from "down east" by the University sloop "Harvard...
...graduates. A quotation from President Elliot's annual report opens the discussion, which is carried on at length by Professor R. B. Merriman '96 in the University notes. A special article by A. W. Hinkel '08, entitled "An Undergraduate on Curtailing Athletics," and the "Student Life" department present the popular view of the matter. The records of current athletic events which the Graduates Magazine supplies, are more for reference than for news value and so are of necessity given in condensed from. The important sections of President Eliot's report are given separate from the quoted paragraphs on athletics. Reviews...
During the past year sixty-three men have made use of the Text-Book Loan Library in Phillips Brooks House and the number would have been largely increased if there had been enough books available. The great need of the Library at present is contributions of books used in the big lecture courses of the University, particularly History, Government and Economics, and the collection which will be made today should meet with a response from every one who has book that are of no immediate use any longer...
...professions can offer as a career for liberally educated men in competition with the established professions of theology, law, medicine, and applied science. This recognition of the dignity of modern business as a profession for university-trained men should be given careful consideration by every undergraduate who is at present undecided as to his life...