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This convention will be of unusual importance in that one of its chief objects will be to bring about an affiliation of the American association with the Corda Fratres, looking toward a world-wide union of students in the cause of "international peace and the universal brotherhood of man." Reports will be read from the different clubs in America showing the progress of Cosmopolitanism in the United States...
...ways, such as the door and window tax, the present system is inadequate and unjust. The new system has been tried out in England and has succeeded, and in almost all other European countries except France. This is the greatest argument in its favor. The income tax did not bring about the French Revolution. The French deputies, who are nearest the will of the people, voted for it at their last session. This seems abundant proof that the French people want...
...unsettled by radical changes in the rules of the game. But it is reasonable to expect that the game will not be so altered that a team which is strong under the present rules will not also play well under new rules. The coming season promises to bring interesting developments, and is quite sure to be a critical one for the game...
...pleasure of the members of the clubs is one of the least important aspects of the trip, nor do we imagine that this consideration weighed heavily with the Faculty when it gave its consent to the undertaking. To bring the graduates in a few cities together, to let them hear at first-hand of affairs in Cambridge, and to show to others who have never had the good fortune to come here that Harvard is not wholly devoted to the publication of new philosophical doctrines or astronomical theories are a few of the intangible benefits to be derived...
...general testimony of trainers that young athletes left to themselves will do too much rather than too little, in the belief that strenuous training will bring the development of the body to an abnormal state in which any amount of competitive strain can be supported with ease. It is a common fallacy, which has often been examplified in the case of such sports as tennis in which the supervision of a trainer is seldom available. If we are correctly informed, the cross-country men give a very good example of it this fall...