Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Harvard-Yale athletes and those of Oxford and Cambridge. "The Madness of Robert Martin," by R. C. Bolling '00, is hardly one of the writer's best stories. The phrases are now and then a little too robust, sometimes too reminiscent of the interminable Kipling; and though one can understand Martin's rebellion against society, his reconciliation seems rather abrupt, rather arbitrary. Still, the story runs brisk and strong, and is filled with genuine love of windy skies and high seas. "Dolls," though anonymous, is plainly the work of some one with a trained dramatic sense and a gift...
...understand that the Committee on Physical Training has submitted a report to the Faculty, and that the question of the advisability of instituting some course at Harvard, is soon to be decided...
...reasons, as I understand it, why the Corporation wish to make a change in the Tree Exercises are these: First, because the present site is overcrowded, and secondly, because the use of football suits and the violence of the scrimmage are offensive to the ladies present. Now it seems to me that both of these difficulties can be obviated...
...further attempt to remodel these exercises means simply getting farther and farther away from the "traditional" argument The ladies who came to see the Tree exercises would not in any case see the genuine article, but merely a revised and abridged edition with the characteristic feature left out. I understand the value of traditions to be in their entity; remnants are very apt to be farcical...
Thus the Executive Committee have acted for the best throughout, and if there is to be criticism are not the ones to receive it. It does not seem to us, however, that there are grounds for criticism. It is easy to understand how inappropriate, almost sacrilegious, a news stand in the Memorial Transept must seem to many of those in the generation ahead of the college man of today, and further the new arrangement promises to entail no inconvenience. It will be just as easy to buy inside the door as outside, quite luxurious to have the papers brought...