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The New York Times Magazine, a publication which has done much for the intellectual expansion of students everywhere, has at last come up with one reason for Harvard's popularity at that woman's college in Northampton.

The article, commemorating the 75th anniversary of the college's founding, stated that in the days when "dissipations were few and properly non-enervating . . . Harvard men were the men most sought after because they were known to address their companions in Latin when the spirit moved them."

The Times concluded the girls at Smith are going to college ". . . not to render their sex less feminine but to develop as fully as may be the powers of womanhood and furnish women with means of usefulness, happiness and honor. . . ."

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