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...fanciful tales that appear almost daily in many local newspapers constitute the most extreme form of misrepresenting Harvard in the public press; but they should see papers from remote parts of the country if they would learn how distorted and perverted yellow news may become after travelling a few thousand miles. If one were to make a business of scrutinizing generally the press of the country for Harvard news, one would no longer wonder why so many misconceptions are rife concerning the life and students of the University...
...extra-curriculum work. The neglect of scholarship is a deplorable fact; persistent attention to so-called "outside activities" in omnipresent. We realize fully the maladjustment of our college life, and our problem concerns its readjustment. In the solution it is obvious that the various activities of some two-thousand men cannot be reduced to one pursuit, scholarship, but it seems possible that a closer connection may be set up between college courses and other undergraduate endeavor. If such a connection be possible, academic work will share in the attention devoted to the "outside activities", and a step will be taken...
Coincident with the announcement on Monday morning of the recent gift to the University of ten thousand dollars, donated to encourage psychical research, there appeared in the New York Sun a long account of the communications which Professor Hyslop, a prominent member of the Society for Psychical Research, claims to have had from the late Professor William James. To the layman the account is fantastic and puzzling: the story of how Professor Hyslop, through the medium of a fifteen-year old boy, held conversations on several different occasions with the "spirit" of Professor James, which proved to the former...
...Courtis, supervisor of testing work in the Boston Public Schools, will lecture in Emerson J Friday evening, under the auspices of the Harvard Chapter of phi Delta kappa, an Honor Society in the Division of Education. Mr. Courtis has tested the mathematical ability of several thousand school children in New York and Boston, and will describe the results of his tests. The lecture will be illustrated with lantern slides, and will be open to members of the University and to teachers and school superintendenis...
...graduates a prize of $100 for an original essay in either Latin or Greek of not less than three thousand words on any subject chosen by the competitor, written by a holder of an academic degree who has been in residence in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences for one full year within the period...