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...confess our sanction of drunkenness, indecency, lying, disrespectfulness and thieving," writes one correspondent, apropos of the "Beer, Movies, Cigarettes" advertised on the posters of the Sophomore banquet. On the other side, another tells us that "beer . . . changes the yelping minstrel into Caruso," and claims that it is "the only thing that makes a meeting go." Both of these writers are intolerant, and each runs to ridiculous extremes...
...professors in the University Law School will, in all probability, lecture to Radcliffe students next year, providing a class of 12 is formed. For a long time attempts have been made to have women admitted to the Law School but President Lowell has never been willing to sanction such a proposition. The problem has been tentatively solved by Dean Thayer and Professor Beale of the Law School, and President Briggs of Radcliffe, by the above provision. Already more than the required number of women, graduates of Radcliffe, Bryn Mawr and Wellesley, have expressed their desire to take advantage...
...them has joined the staff of this Schools. That there exists in China a demand for native doctors and health officers trained in the best medical knowledge and skill of the modern world is beyond doubt. Before long it may be expected that the Chinese government will officially sanction and confirm the degree given by this Schools, and by some others...
...official sanction of the "two-instrument rule" whereby any man in one instrument club must play in the other also makes for still further efficiency and insures a coherent and well-organized body of men. This system has been most successful at Yale; and will result in the strengthening of both the banjo and mandolin clubs...
...adviser still superintends the choice of courses made by the student although it is to be expected, probably, that a capable tutor will tend to influence this choice. It will be impossible so sharply to distinguish the task of choosing courses and correlating them as to prevent this. The sanction of the adviser may approximate formal permission, with the guiding force held by the tutor...