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...coolness with which the imaginative writer has relegated Harvard to an inferior position in the field of sport, has a certain freshness which deserves better material. Without inquiry into the motives or desires of the faculty, the writers have described it as an unwarranted war upon "professionalism," a fatal blow to college athletics, and several other equally emphatic statements, which go to show that the end and aim of college athletics to them is the attainment of so many victories over other rival teams. No matter how the average student may compare with those in a similar position in another...
...telling blow has been struck at the freshman course from which it will probably never recover. It is now but a question of time when freshman required work must be a thing of the past. Probably the only thing that prevents the general raising of the standard at once is the fact that there are but few suitable fitting schools as yet in the country. As soon as good schools are more numerous, the course at Harvard will probably be made entirely elective. The only question is whether it will be a three or a four years' course. According...
...pupils, and as their clapping ceased, one of the members of the school presented him, in behalf of his last class, a beautiful "Loving Cup," inscribed with a quotation from one of the "poet's" own poems. This proof of the esteem of his pupils was a hard blow to the doctor, but the inevitable photographer and his camera gave him time to recover sufficiently to begin his lecture. There were three times in a man's life, he said, when he might properly consider himself the centre of attraction-at his christening, at his marriage...
...have come to put you through," was the reply. The freshman told them they had better not attempt anything, but they scornfully refused to listen to advice from a member of a lower class, and made a rush for the youth whom they took to be green. With a blow he laid one of the bold sophs upon his back. In the melee that followed the light was overturned and extinguished, when the freshman grasped a chair and the sophomores were compelled to beat a hasty and disastrous retreat. The next morning the freshman was called before the president...
...want it to do, is to maintain a high position among college nines. Any other ambition, except to stand well in comparison with college competitors, is undesirable in any branch of athletics, for it tends sooner or later to turn sports into means of money-making. The death blow to college athletics is much more likely to come from professionalism than from faculty interference." This opinion it seems to us is gradually spreading in our colleges. It certainly is beginning to be held at Harvard, and Yale no doubt will be forced to accept it sooner or later...