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...duPont de Nemours & Co., Inc., powder-makers, offered $2,500 in merchandise prizes to the individual or club which, at the end of a three months' season, has killed the most crows or other birds or animals termed "vermin" in the prospectus of their competition. To prove the verminosity of the crow, an expedition of the duPont company went to the islands off the Virginia coast, habitat of the "fish crow"-peculiarly vicious. Many notable men have sprung, indignant, to the crow's defense. To his people of the State of Maine, Governor Percival Proctor Baxter made proclamation...
...will do what the articles written by the various departmental heads did last year. And the English A method will be more effective because practically the whole freshman class will of necessity hear about the possibilities. At the same time there will be another opportunity not mentioned in the prospectus. Since the lectures are to be given by professors from each field, every student will have the chance to decide for himself what speaker is to him most coherent and therefore which he wishes to follow in the future. Beside all this there is to be commended finally...
Invitations have gone out to all the important colleges and universities in the East, and a prospectus and the proposed program have been sent to all who are expected to participate in this conference. The chief features of the program consist of an afternoon and an evening meeting, to be addressed by prominent men who have been invited to come for this purpose; and a banquet in the University Dining Halls. At the afternoon meeting a resolution will be introduced expressing to the Government the sympathy of the colleges of the country with the purpose of the coming Washington Conference...
...policy of the Harvard Magazine as stated, is "to publish the best in Harvard and Radcliffe." Such a prospectus is comprehensive, pretentious, and difficult of fulfillment, but shows the sort of boundless ambition that deserves laudation. Certainly their opportunity is golden, their well advertised inauguration propitious, but it remains to be seen if they can bring back the breath of life to the stagnant literary life of the undergraduate and lift again the torch dropped from the grasp of the dying Monthly...
...which the first is printed as an extra number of the Harvard Theological Review, the whole series to be edited by George F. Moore, Kirsop Lake and James H. Ropes for the Faculty of Divinity. The point of interest concerning the series is that it revealed by its prospectus. As a result of the war, many European journals of research have been forced to suspend publication, and in further consequence the editors of the Harvard Theological Review, seeking material for their issues, have had much valuable matter spontaneously offered to them by scholars abroad who, in the ordinary course, would...