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...reason that the present day American college student knows so little about the game is that it is not the sport taken up by the small boy as soon as he is able to play any game. The recent adoption of the game by the public schools of Boston, whose example is being followed even by some of the boarding schools, however, assures Harvard an ever increasing quantity of men who have already mastered the rudiments...
...those who run to 'nine-o'clocks' may read, came forth Thursday morning with an editorial on 'Dramatics at Harvard' sandwiched into a page of frantic commercial appeals from people who make the sort of breakfast food that produces brain tissue and the sort of cigarette 'that every college boy smokes.' And the CRIMSON--or as it is affectionately known at Harvard, 'The Crime'--informed its readers that, however the college graduate flourished on Broadway, the state of dramatics--and by this it meant principally acting--within the undergraduate body itself was in a very terrible condition...
...wish to call the attention of members of the University to a class for the instruction of boy scout leaders which meets first on Wednesday, January...
Doubtless the Boy scout Movement is familiar to many. It is a non-sectarian effort, now extending throughout this country and England, with the aim of utilizing the normal impulses of boys for lout-of-door life and for adventure, by organizing them into group under an older leader to aid in their development into alert, useful citizens. The movement is meant for all classes of boys and the groups are organized in sympathy with and not in opposition to existing organizations...
...plea that an effort be made to renew its hold. But has the University ever had any influence on the plan of study in such institutions? When it is seen that more than half the public high schools of Massachusetts have not sent to Harvard a single boy in ten years, it is clear that the true answer is negative. The great mass of high schools throughout the country do their own work in their own way, regardless of the regulations of admission to Harvard or any other college...