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...playing itself as to the fact that the men have been really careless about their personal appearance. American college athletes have the reputation of being far less careful about their costumes than the English. Doubtless the influence at work in the gymnasium is apt to make one a bit neglectful. But after a moment's reflection any one must realize that a sleeveless rowing shirt, however immaculate, is not the best thing in which to appear before the grand stand at a ball game...
...threatened defeat, then cheering is about so much noise and nothing more. Let the cheering,- honest, hearty cheering, greet the nine when it comes out of the Carey Building, and from that time on let it never be lacking as long as it will do the nine a bit of good...
...absolutely silent and unresponsive hearts and throats? Those of us who remember Harvard boys when their blood ran crimson and ran swift, did not recognize the genus that in irreproachable claw-hammers and faultless ties patted well-gloved hands together in rythmic applause that night. Harvard boys? Not a bit of it ! Young gentlemen from Dr. Blimber's own academy, taking an evening out, in charge of Miss Cornelia Blimber-that's what they were, and that's all they were."- Dorothy Lundt, in Boston Transcript...
Hard work is needed, and a great deal of it. Nothing will invite disaster more quickly than the assumption that, because we have won, we shall win. Every bit of experience that Harvard has gained in her past debates ought to be consulted; every method which has been found good ought to be so thoroughly studied that not a whit of its efficacy shall be lost at the time of the decisive debate; and every improvement, shown to be possible by weakness in past debates, ought eagerly to be carried out. The wisdom gathered from past debates...
...does the world no good simply because it lacks opportunity. If it could reach beyond college bounds and could be given something besides itself to spend its energy upon, its energy would greatly increase. The trouble is simply that college men and the "outside world" are a bit apt to look askance at each other and to feel that they have little in common. Yet college men are a part of the world and until they realize that they are citizens and that they have the duties and opportunities of citizens, they must be accounted narrow minded. As citizens...