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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...collectors are urged to be ready on time, and are warned not to leave articles where a mistake can be made and the wrong things carried...
...those of Lowell and Eliot, of James and Santayana, of Taussig and Hart. It cannot be denied that intellectual restraint does exist in many colleges. That it does not exist at Harvard is one of our proudest boasts. In theory, Senator Hollis was right: but in fact he was wrong. Harvard is widely praised and widely attacked for leading the liberal thought of the country: to attack it for its conservatism is simply ignorance. ROGER LAFFERTY...
With reference to a communication favoring a "college orchestra" which appeared in your columns yesterday, we feel that a replay is necessary, lest those unacquainted with the activities of the Pierian Sodality Orchestra may be led to a wrong impression regarding the same. Mr. Goldberg's favors the following reforms more systematic regulation of discipline, programs, and personnel. A review of our present season alone would be sufficient to show that the standard of the Pierian Sodality not only satisfies Mr. Goldberg's demands, but surpasses those set by many of the orchestras subsidized by the faculties of other colleges...
...College, however, there has existed and still exists a mistaken disregard of scholarship. Plenty of men of energy and ability in every class never take Phi Beta Kappa seriously, or at least do not take it so until after their chance of winning it is gone. There is something wrong with undergraduate opinion, something beyond the indifference of the unenergetic which is a price of freedom and individualism...
...looking through these articles one gathers a confuses impression pf dissatisfaction. Something seems to be wrong. The subjects are good, the opinions expressed are for the most part sound: what can be the matter? The answer is to be found in the leading article by Mr. Coggeshall, "A Harvard Man's Impressions of Oxford." Like the other contents of the number this article is in no sense a literary essay. It is of a "newsy" character appropriate to the magazine. But it possesses distinction of style; it is readable. The other articles hold the reader rather by the interest...