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...when the travelling scholar has been honored in being the recipient of a fellowship is his position troublesome. The establishment of Rhodes scholars and the like as a sort of congenial and unofficial ambassadors to the land of their sojourn has tended to become a reversible reaction, with the result that frequent lamentations have bewailed these men as Caligulas trying to reign in a new Rome and making only a sorry pottage of their distinction...
...satisfactorily, too, in the very lair of the suspicious lion. To the Lionel de Jersey Harvard Student goes the honor of out pointing and outwitting the British genius for debate. To the British genius for fair play goes the honor of properly awarding his laurel to him. The net result is not far from equal, and credits to each side a rise in the score of mutual respect...
...Thanksgiving until the Monday following. If it is necessary that the recitations on Wednesday should be conducted as usual, and that those living at a distance should be prevented from spending the day with their families, is it necessary also to deprive them of the pleasure that would otherwise result from the short recess, by asking them to prepare for an examination immediately after their return...
...main collection of the Herbarium, the result of more than 80 years of continuous and carefully planned growth, contains about 750,000 sheets of mounted specimens, including all groups of flowering plants, ferns, and fern-allies, and representing the floras of all countries...
...used primarily as a social center it will not appeal to club men on the basis and it will be necessary to urge athletes and socially prominent undergraduates to join. Its true function is above merely a basis of pleasant companionship although that will naturally enter in as a result of the higher ideals...