Word: ways
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President Eliot and Dean Briggs have planned to make trips through the western and southern parts of the country, visiting on their way a considerable number of Harvard clubs, at which they will be entertained...
...Wister, in urging their point, have neglected the position of the undergraduate. Their ideal is that of progress in unexplored regions of literature, art and science. Ours is the development of "second-string" men, who, while profiting themselves by the words of eminent authorities, will pave the way for a gradual improvement in real scholarship. To our undeveloped minds this ideal seems nobler than devotion to original research, and until financial resources make possible the parallel development of the two ideals, we must hold that the leading authorities of American universities are justified in devoting their energies to the propagation...
After this concert the men came home by way of the Michigan Central Railroad. The travelling schedule of the trip was arranged by M. B. Whitney '08 and J. Curtiss '09, and the details of the concerts by the local Harvard Clubs
...way Home Dean Sabine will stop at Indianapolis, where he will be the guest on January 2 of the Harvard Club of Indiana, and will speak informally at a dinner of the Harvard men in the city. On January 5 he will address the public school teachers of Dayton Ohio, and on January 7 will give another address before the students of Ohio State University at Columbus, Ohio. He will probably be in Cambridge by January...
...Powel's "up to the minute" story is a wild burlesque, of considerable merit, with a preface which might well be reduced to a title, and a postscript which in spite of its kindly spirit might well be omitted. Mr. Schenck's "Missing Mistletoe" is slow in getting under way, and sudden ever afterwards. Much of the dialogue lacks ease, but, the sudden part is diverting. Mr. Warren's "Lost Christmas" is a story of sorrow, told creditably yet lacking power. Mr. Whitman's "Chamburlesque" I cannot estimate fairly without reading the work it parodles--and this, if the parody...