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DEAR SIR.- Last summer I went with a nine to England. There were two other Harvard men, three Yale men and one Princeton man. Our expenses were paid, including an allowance for incidentals. With this exception I have never received money or other emolument for engaging in athletics. Yours, etc., D. S. DEAN...
...FRIEND DEANE:- I am in receipt of your letter of the 12. I shall be only too happy to make a statement in regard to the conditins under which you and the rest of the College boys went to England. I had an interview with Mr. A. G. Hodges last evening and gave him a letter to the effect that you went purely for pleasure, and that no money except for your absolute expenses, was allowed. I can go still further and say that no money was paid to any of the gentlemen except upon their presentation of vouchers covering...
...supplement issued today, to which each of our subscribers is entitled, we publish in fall the statement which the Athletic committee has been preparing during the last three or four weeks. The report itself needs no explanation. It presents a full and can did reply to the manifesto which Princeton made public a few weeks ago, and is, as far as we can see, a complete vindication of Harvard's policy thus far this year. The completenss of the evidence in Harvard's favor will prove a surprise even to those who have been all along the most sanguine. Practically...
...last in the series of lectures delivered by members of the German department took place yesterday afternoon in Sever 11, when Professor von Jagemann spoke about the Romantic school and the beginning of Germanic Philology. The lecturer said in brief that the Romantic movement which affected German literature in the beginning of this century was a reaction against the classicism and rationalism of the preceding period. Instead of addressing themselves only to the cold understanding of their readers, the writers of the Romantic school appealed to the imagination, the faith, and the superstition of the people. Instead of a onesided...
...text of his remarks. He said that John is the link between the Old Testament and the New. There is the same message at the close of the Old Testament and the beginning of the New. "I am the culmination of the prophets" He looks at the future, not last, but first; he holds the door open. Every man in his little way stands between the past and the future, the old and the new. In the life here a man has the advantages and collected thought of the past systematized for his use, and in the face of this...