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...much as a foot. If this is the actual state of affairs, - and there seems no reason to doubt the correctness of these statements, - something must be done at once. No one will care to make a record on a track which is not level, and the one branch of athletics in which Harvard was successful last year will receive a severe blow. The Athletic Association, with an energy which it has always shown, intends to make the repairs which are necessary. But to make thorough work, a larger amount of money is needed than it can raise unless...
...Society for Political Education, of which the central branch is in New York, is increasing its sphere of work and bids fair to be successful. Any one can become an active member by paying fifty cents a year, and by promising to read certain books. Harvard students who desire membership can obtain full information from the officers of the Finance Club...
...popular enthusiasm in its welfare is lessened. Men wish in the long run to stand by victory. But it seems to us none the less necessary that the College should do all in its power, by expressing its interest, to help raise our position in any branch of athletics from second to first place. This is the least that can be expected from the students at large, and if it is shown, they naturally look for corresponding hard work on the part of our representative athletes. On this account we are averse to wholesale praise and to wholesale blame...
...body; for it would afford a supplementary practice to debaters, such as could not fail to add to the excellence of the debates in the present society. The cordial cooperation and encouragement of the President of the Union and others, who opposed the scheme of the Legislature as a branch of the Union, but warmly advocate it as an independent society, would entirely prevent the action of those who now make this proposition in your paper from being misconstrued into an attempt to damage the Union...
...think that the Union is distinctly to be congratulated in having decided not to undertake a legislative branch. The object of the Union is to encourage debate on topics of general interest, not to countenance the quibbling and meaningless discussions into which a legislative branch would inevitably degenerate; besides, even the importance of a knowledge of parliamentary procedure, about which so much was said on Thursday evening, can be of little value to most of us. All else that was claimed for the legislative branch can legitimately be secured in the Union as it is; and it would have been...