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...club, or because he belongs to a club the rank of which might somehow be considered lower than another. The Report of the Harvard Student Council Committee on Undergraduate Clubs is, therefore, advisable only in one respect--and that is the light which it throws on the eating problem in the University. All other details subject themselves to this one regard. One may assume that the purpose of the Student Council in broaching this subject which is discussed openly less than any other undergraduate topic is philanthropical and not analytical merely for the sake of offering statistics and figures indicative...
...excuse for the present report is its relation to the eating situation. And since the above examination has proved, to the satisfaction of the CRIMSON, that this is not the solution to that problem it feels that the report is a failure in this particular respect. As a widespread appeal to clubmembers to let down the bars it is an effective presentation. Its impracticability otherwise is unsatisfactory...
...University are culpable, one can merely comment on the degradation of the drama which has been Harvard's share. On the other hand if the Club itself is not appreciating its chances, a thespian revolution would be an efficient solution to what is a genuine and as yet unanswerable problem...
...player and analyst of international fame and as an editor has long been established. Chess is more widely played than checkers. I believe. It is more complex and outwardly spectacular, but is by no manner of means even approximately as scientific. Every position in checkers is a problem in pure mathematics. As one who has (in 1906) worked in the upper reaches of differential and integral calculus, and who has also spent many years (not recently) in the study of checkers and in original analysis of published match and tournament games, I may be privileged to speak on this phase...
...that this was the condition of all the U. S.: "The great difficulty with the rural situation at present is that many of our clergy are merely 'tenant parsons' There is just as much danger in this aspect of modern religion as there is in the problem of tenant farmers from an economic standpoint. Young men go into the country sections and do good work for two or three years as a sort of apprenticeship to moving into the city." He recommended: "A sort of traveling parson who would serve several missionary stations." And he advocated a minimum...