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...another from the days of the ancient Greeks to our own more enlightened times, and today is more popular than ever before. If participation in a form of athletics such as boxing were not beneficial to the development of man's body and brain, it would have perished long ago, so I feel that in writing these lines for the CRIMSON I am speaking of a game that merits its place among the men of Harvard whether or not they are among those who report for the boxing classes at the Hemenway Gymnasium...
Harvard is considering a new departure in the way of a minor Sports Club modelled along the lines of the present Varsity Club. Yale, a few years ago instituted the "Y" Club and, shortly afterwards, similar institutions were formed at Harvard and Princeton, membership being based solely upon the possession of the Varsity letter. In each case the organization has proved to be a stimulating influence for athletics in many ways. Princeton's supervision, through the Varsity Club, of the scholastic work of prominent athletes has answered a long-felt need and its value will be proved...
...shall be "administered as if the present war terminated on the date when this resolution becomes effective." Trading with the enemy, Liberty Loan enactments and those connected with the War Finance Corporation are the chief exceptions to the laws that will go, and should have gone long ago if this country had been able to find peace in the arrangements made by the President...
...remains to all time, a lasting record of human needs and human consolations; the voice of a brother who ages ago felt and suffered and renounced. In the cloister; perhaps, with serge gown and tonsored head, with a fashion of speech different from ours, but under the same silent, far off heavens, and with the same passionate desires, the same stirrings, the same failures, the same weariness."--George Eliot. 8vo. Cloth. Decorative cover. Chatto and Windus, London. Published at $2.50. Special price...
...made a stronger appeal to college men than it makes now. Religion is admitted to be our greatest need. A well-known financier lately declared it to be the foundation of that general confidence on which rests the stability of finance. A prominent business man a few days ago said publicly that what business most needs today is the infusion of the religious spirit. Industry today needs nothing so much as it needs the Golden Rule. And there is no corrective to lawlessness and social disorder to equal the sanctions of religion. Therefore when a man undertakes...