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...events, ushering on Class Day does not consist simply in punching the time clock at Harvard Hall, obtaining the decoration of a bronze badge, and devoting the rest of the day to finding out how many spreads it will "admit one" to. It is not a tacit invitation to "free lunch", any more than it pre-supposes personally conducted tours to Agassiz by the hour to show somebody's Aunt Agatha the glass flowers. If means two things: first, attending to visitors' wants; second, keeping from the Yard everybody who does not belong there. Experience in former years proves that...
...wants to read them in that way. But the thing which is really offered is exactly the thing for which there has been a persistent demand of late--the opportunity to read independently of courses. And the editorial suggestion that a new course be established, with its tacit assumption that the talk of professors about books is a sine quanon to the intelligent reading of the books themselves, is the strongest evidence possible that the new plan has not come too soon...
Whether the United States government would lend its recognition to such a scheme, with its tacit invitation to Australia and the other British self-government colonies to do likewise is doubtful. But the situation is strongly indicative of a growing spirit of nationalism across the border. Like the other colonies Canada is becoming more and an independent political and economic unit...
...question to believe that the University authorities knowingly permitted open advocacy of the policies and principles of a government with which the United States is internally and externally at war. Although the apparent tacit approval of the University may be explained by inadvertence or lack of information concerning the insidiously subtle propaganda of the speaker involved, (who outdoes Mr. H. G. Wells in his own "rayon" in picturing the delights and perfection of Soviet Russia to which even such eminent, advocates of the cause as Miss Emma Goldman seem loath to return) we feel that it would be salutory...
...attend Chapel is at once a duty and an opportunity. When presence at Chapel was made voluntary by the University some years ago it was the tacit understanding that the honor and good judgment of the men would ensure their continuance of the custom. But recently neither of these virtues appear to have exercised a favorable influence upon the attendance. Much praise is due, however, to those few men who have either created or-continued the admirable habit of going to Chapel, especially at a time when the appeal of the bell has been regularly falling upon the deaf ears...