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Across the water in the English universities, two thousand men in each of them go to their sports every afternoon as regularly as they go to their lectures every morning. These sports are and have been ever since the men were boys at school a part of their curriculum, and not once a week or once a month, but once a day from October to June. At two o'clock you see them pouring out at their college gates, and at four or there-abouts you see them hurrying back. Three hundred or so of them row; three hundred more...
...closing, Mr. McCall said that he believed that Harvard through its scholars had sent forth the most potent single force in the country. This quiet presentation of academic distinctions, he said, is far better than the acclaim of forty thousand people in the Stadium. There is soon to be a reaction in the world, and it will become popular to be a scholar. And this is right, for nothing in the world is more useful to one's country than scholarship...
...there were four thousand invitations sent to the students alone, it was thought that perhaps another year, only the new men, who might not know about these Teas, need by invited by note. All the students, who are here this winter, would understand the cordial invitation, which is always printed in the CRIMSON every week; so that only the new-comers would need a note. About this proposal for next year--it is only a proposal--there seems to have been a slight misunderstanding. The Committee wish it distinctly understood, that every student in the University will always be welcome...
...member of the University who has not received one may obtain a copy without charge on application at the House. The book is issued in pocket form, and contains information about various undergraduate interests, athletic records, etc. and memorandum pages for each day of the College year. Two thousand copies were printed, and the Freshman class and many upperclassmen have already been supplied...
Nicholson, "House of a Thousand Candles...