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Some of the communications which the CRIMSON has received -- and has not printed--condemning the serving of beer at smokers would make snappy reading for many if copied by the outside press. Those willing to abuse Harvard on any pretext would find them truly engrossing. The CRIMSON does not wish to restrict freedom of discussion in its columns, but those who desire to make their views public should remember that harm is quite frequently done through utterances which should be confined to Cambridge...
...organized system, which took effect last spring, the number of men has been increased and the service made much superior to its former standard. These men guard especially against the suspicious stranger who enters the Yard with something to sell and proposes to enter the dormitories under one pretext or another, and it is very seldom that the outsider of doubtful mission escapes the surveillance of the patrol. There are, however, thefts carried on in one manner or another, and in order to guard against vagrant trespassers, it is urged that the undergraduates co-operate with the officers and report...
...most boring day imaginable, and is yet the one day of the week on which an undergraduate can devote eight or ten hours to the work of his courses. If Sunday was less monotonous, many more men would undoubtedly remain in Cambridge to work, and fewer would seize any pretext at hand for going away. One reason why there is no variety connected with a Cambridge Sunday, is that there are no facilities for vigorous exercise. The tennis courts on Jarvis and Soldiers Fields as well as the boat-houses cannot be used...
...Yale handsomely. In baseball, the team was brought into its best form too early, and though it had almost unexampled success with Princeton, lost to Yale. Thus, though the baseball season was in several ways disappointing, the most ill-natured critic of Harvard athletics could no longer find a pretext for the old accusation of favoritism and incompetence...
...France-Japanese agreement was simply a safeguard for French Indo-China, but owing to the bad French translation of its original form, it may one day give China a pretext for complaint of unjustifiable foreign interference in her affairs. The treaty between Russia and Japan, though drawn up at Portsmouth when the war ended, was not reduced to satisfactory form till the autumn of 1907. Although bearing hardly on Russia, in some respects it ensures peaceful conditions for Russian activities in the Far East...