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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...motto "Education at any price" is more and more popular. When reading is assigned or recommended in a book of which only one copy has reached the libraries of Greater Boston, certain lovers of learning usually appropriate it from the shelves of Widener two days before the hour examination and browse through it. When the examination has passed the book reappears. Common considerations of honesty and fair play do not deter these people; they brave the fear of discovery and the wrath of the librarian in their omnivorous search for knowledge. To call these people schoolboys is to understate...
...believe Harvard has no bowling team, and I wonder why. Bowling is broadly popular and especially good exercise, and as Harvard is wisely trying to have as many different kinds of athletic teams as may be, it would seem desirable to stimulate bowling by having an official team, and secondary teams...
...conclusion of the Freshmen dormitory tennis tournaments, which have been unusually popular, the following teams and managers have been chosen to represent the three Halls. These teams will compete in the Interdormitory series which was started Wednesday, Smith Halls winning the first match from Standish. The teams...
...time that college men quit the use of terms which are coined for a popular purpose, and which only befog any possible intelligent consideration of issues. Let us discuss industrial representation in government instead of "soviet" government and cease this business of giving a dog a bad name and hanging him for it. As they used to ask, "Do you believe in man's divine nature or his descent from monkeys?" So now they ask, "Do you believe in American or Soviet government?" It should be the distinction of college men above non-college men, as trained thinkers, that they...
Among the other two-fifths of the Freshman Class, the most popular game this autumn is tennis. On rainy or muddy days these same men play indoor baseball, soccer or lacrosse. Other squads are engaged three times a week in playing handball, basketball and squash, or are receiving instruction in swimming...