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...spite of what Mark Twain said about statistics as a superlative form of lying, there are times when figures are very impressive--especially if one is left to draw his own conclusions. The Boston Transcript has given such figures of college attendance in this country. "Since the establishment of colleges in the United States," says the Transcript, "there have been graduated, in round numbers, 900,000 men--and at the present moment there are actually in the colleges of the country about 700,000. In other words, there are almost as many students now in the colleges of the land...
...would be erroneous, however, to place too much emphas's upon economic incentives. The very facts of increased competition and increased wealth have made more preminent than ever before another cause for growing college attendance. It will not be too optimistic to interpret the Transcript's figures as evidence in America of a real increased demand for culture for its own sake...
...Caughey Jr. '25, president of the CRIMSON. He will be followed by Mr. Robert Lincoln O'Brien '91. Editor-in-chief of the Boston Herald. Mr. O'Brien became personal secretary to Grover Cleveland shortly after his graduation from college. In 1895 he was Washington correspondent of the Boston Transcript and ever since then has been connected with newspaper work. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Pulitzer School of Journalism...
...wisdom of taking arms against all who have said a word in this Advocate and Lampoon controversy seems doubtful. Ia yesterday's column, the CRIMSON took issue with a reprinted Transcript editorial. Nobody denies that the Advocate published certain things lacking in good taste which, when brought into the limelight, appeared rather badly. In view, of this, instead of attacking the Transcript's comment resentfully and again bewailing the suppression of the Advocate as unjust and futile, the CRIMSON would have done well to get the matter drop. The subject was in the first place difficult to handle with dignity...
Since recent events have given those hostile papers which delight to stir up the dregs of the public, a splendid chance to roil the waters. It seems poor policy to find fault with a few admonitions from an elder friend. The Transcript is the last of all Boston papers whose words merit caustic reception at Harvard. Even if its editorial had a slightly paternal lingo, the intent was kindly. Harvard has enough ill-wishers already without carping at its friends. Frederick deW Pinaree...