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Publications of Harvard and Princeton have taken a novel step toward resuming athletic relations and amicable feelings toward each other in their respective alma maters. Elsewhere in today's issue an account of the baseball game between the Harvard Lampoon and the Princeton Tiger is given, and though, to be sure, this was a sham ball game and no score was kept, still the match may perhaps give an opening for peace conferences between the two universities...
Exile Leo Davidovich Bronstem thinks the part he has played in Russia's affairs an honest, able, ill-requited one; thinks the rest of Russia is now out of step. But he is philosophical, quotes Revolutionist Pierre Joseph Proudhon's (1809-65) words from prison: "Destiny-I laugh at it; and as for men, they are too ignorant, too enslaved for me to feel annoyed at them...
...making known this fact the authorities explained that the step had been taken only after a careful study of the provisions of the will of Major Henry Lee Higginson, donor of the Union. Opposition to the proposal so to employ the Union has been based on an expressed wish of Major Higginson's that the character of the Union as an undergraduate club be not changed. The authorities answer this objection by pointing out that the will permits of change in view of the mediocre success of the Union as it is at present organized. It is planned that...
...student's attention from the studies where his interests lie to the least stimulating courses offered by the College, at the very period when the difficult transition from school to university makes intellectual awakening to first function of the latter. The result is intellectual nausea instead. The first step in curing this disease is to abolish the language requirements...
...their abolishment. But it is impossible for them to fulfill their functions. The College, as has been pointed out before, is not the place to begin the study of a living tongue, Large classes, poor teachers, and the fact that requirements of and sort are distastefully out of step with Harvard's educational idea make the situation here peculiarly bad. If all education is self-education, how can it be possible to stuff a reading knowledge down unwilling throats, with translations available and cheap and the Widow available but expensive...