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Candidates for degrees of A. B. and S. B. may apply, in writing, for not more than three tickets for the use of friends to the exercises in Sever Quadrangle on Commencement morning. Students in Harvard College who are candidates for a degree may apply, in writing, for not more than one ticket admitting to standing room in Sever Quadrangle...
...with many of the characteristics one associates with a first. There is plot without novelty, capable and charming description overdone to create a sense of mystery, a medley of characters, some drawn, with breadth, and reality, but others idly cast off or, worse still, caricatured from the conventional types used by the Victorian novelists. What the reader bent on analysis more than care free enjoyment most deplores, however, is the failure of the author to use great opportunities. Action takes place on an ancient but ill-kept farm, Saltacres, close by a marshy lake and near to a sleepy town...
Aviation will show its use for rapid transportation next Sunday when the Reverend R. B. Ogilby '02, president of Trinity College Hartford, will preach a sermon at Appleton Chapel at 5 o'clock in the afternoon and will then fly to Hartford where he will attend the Trinity Baccalaureate services at the Church Cathedral at 7.45 o'clock. President Ogilby plans to attend his class's twenty-fifth reunion which will be held here on June 18 and 19. He is scheduled to preach the class anniversary sermon Sunday, which will start at 5 o'clock, but he also wants...
Writing, or what is now called writing, is still of course in common use, but the modern tendency seems to be for everyone to ignore the recognized signs which represent the alphabet and to develop a species of short hand, intelligible only to themselves. This is only too evident in present day business life, where practically all correspondence is typewritten. Business men realize the difficulty of interpretting letters written in ordinary long hand, and they save themselves trouble by arranging their transactions through the medium of a typewriter...
...will, I am sure, be promptly and vigorously condemned by every one of the other 35 members of Psychology 9, and even, I hope, by the who who did it, when he reflects that his deed wronged his fellow students who had the same right to the use of this article that he had, and wronged the Library by permanently destroying the value of an expensive reference work. Copies of odd volumes, still less of stray pages, of the Britannica are not to be procured from the publishers, and cannot be picked up at the booksellers...