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Through the kindness of Mr. A. P. Keith '01, we have been able to give a vaudeville performance composed of a number of acts from his theatre in Boston. This proved a great success and was appreciated by a large audience. Two successful innovations have been the Pop Concerts and the Junior Dance, and now a series of lectures on the various professions is being arranged for The importance of these entertainments towards increasing the membership cannot be too strongly emphasized and I advise the formation of a permanent fund the income of which could be used for their support...
...system, he said, is best illustrated by the difference between restrained liberty and unrestrained liberty. We can distinctly trace the origin of the free elective system of Harvard to the German universities. Conditions in American colleges, however, are quite different from those abroad, and, even admitting the very questionable success of this system at Harvard, it does not necessarily follow that the system would prove successful in other colleges and universities throughout the country. Although the system may be theoretically sound, it has never been tested to any extent, and it is impracticable to carry into effect...
...third place, in free elective system is pre-eminent in its success in the moulding or manly character. Ambition and definite purpose, the never-failing result of the interest which choice inspires, guarded by the sense of responsibility which free choice implants, form manly character and a manly spirit strong when choice is free, and strongest when choice is freest, and only from the exercise of choice comes the power to choose rightly...
...prepare a student for his profession, but to cultivate his mind and form his character. As Dean West of Princeton said, "College should teach a man to make a life, rather than to make a living." After leaving the university the fierce struggle to make a fortune or attain success absorbs every other motive. It is therefore, at college that a man should realize the high ideals, breadth of mind and varied interests, which lend such an additional charm to life. It is the individualistic principle of the free elective system, which emphasizes out of all proportion the need...
...first public performance of the Deutscher Verein play, "Der Raub der Sabinerinnen," given last night in Brattle Hall, repeated the pronounced success of the graduates performance...