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Selection is a principle that works both ways: if the University chooses, the prospective student, too, has the privilege of seeing Harvard as it is. If he believes it worth while, it may be desirable for him to show himself just a bit better than average: because it is for the student's sake that Harvard discriminates. Harvard does not throw its gates wide open for anybody; neither does it put a lock upon them. It is here for men to seek. It admits openly the principle which governs it; but it is precisely that principle which has preserved Harvard...
Comparative scores of the University and her opponents of this evening point to an advantage for the latter, for they defeated Brown only a bit less decisively than the Providence team swamped the University last Friday, and Worcester Polytech, which has outclassed the University in two games this winter, managed to win a bare two-point victory on its home court over the New Hampshire men. Bates, Tufts and Middlebury are among the defeated teams...
...sketch involving a will, a widow and a few tunes. Jack Osterman showed his inimitable gift of entertaining an audience without doing anything in particular and Ethel MacDonough gave a brief series of monologues setting forth a typical day of a lady of fashion. The Balliot trio did a bit of clever juggling...
...yard dash was the closest race of the afternoon. J. E. Merrill of the Freshmen got the jump at the start and led the field a fast pace, until on the last corner T. Durant of the schoolboys took the inside by a bit of clever running and beat Merrill to the tape by a scant few inches. The 600-yard run was marred by a couple of falls at the beginning of the second lap, when W. Tibbetts, of Worcester, leading, with Thomas Campbell of the 1924 team a few feet behind, tripped on the corner...
...Wherein Harvard Excels" is so wholesome in its conclusions that, while others may envy, they can but admire. "It (the high respect) probably rests on Harvard's General reputation for wisdom, sanity, and clearness of thought." Thus Professor Carver evidences the fact in his own contribution, a crystallized bit of "wisdom, sanity, and clearness of thought...