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...January number of the Harvard Monthly is of the kind which is pleasant to remember. Whoever has kept files of this only undergraduate publication which pretends to serious literary purpose must have grown aware of how well the volumes hold their own. The pages are not apt to be instantly brilliant; but in many ways they prove to have a quality not quite ephemeral...
...upon this act if he is given the opportunity. The object of the lender is to place the student in a position in which he will appear to be amenable to the provisions of Chapter 203 of the Public Statutes of Massachusetts which provide in $59 that "Whoever designedly, by a false pretence, or by a privy or false token, and with intent to defraud, obtains property from another person, . . . shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison not exceeding ten years, or by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars and imprisonment in the jail not more than...
...that is shared by all workers in libraries. To the administration of libraries he brought abilities of such an order as had rarely if ever before been so devoted, and he proved that such abilities are not wasted but on the contrary are demanded in the care of books. Whoever, therefore, shall devote himself to the care of books must find his work dignified, his place in the community elevated because of the life-work of Justin Winsor...
...absurd then to imagine that the result can be foretold, and it is worse than absurd to encourage any general expectation that Harvard will have the game in her hands. Whoever wins that game must fight it out to the bitter end, and any feeling of security is ill founded. Too much confidence tends too spoil the team. It also tends to produce a violent reaction against the method of coaching in case of defeat. Finally it gives outsiders and graduates an exaggerated idea of the team's ability, which calls down upon them perhaps unjust criticism if they...
...Bram murder trial; since this was such a terrible murder and such a disgrace to civilization, why not suppress everything about it? Why not suppress some of the scandalous debates of the U. S. Senate or the House? Surely these debates are a discredit to the nation, and whoever reports them is, according to the standard of the writer in the Graduates' Magazine, "plying a shameless trade," and is disloyal to his country. I can say why it is not best to suppress them: it is because a good tempering influence is exerted by these very reports...