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Outside the inner circle of athletic enthusiasm here, there lie several sports which merely arouse the interest of men from certain sections of the country who have been identified with them before entering on their college course. If defeated, these men are greeted with a "Well, what else could you expect?" If victorious, the general expression is, "what difference does it make? its only such and such a team." In the face of such inertia it can be understood how hard it is for men to keep up energetic practice, and how it often happens that the practice does...
...White '99, in opening for Harvard, disclaimed any intention to argue against all immigration. The present laws, he said, are inadequate in that they do not exclude those whom they aim to exclude, and because they contain no provision for the exclusion of certain other undesirable immigrants. In the laws as they stand there is practically nothing to prevent idiots, insane persons, paupers and criminals from coming to this country by way of Canada. But even if these could be excluded, there are reasons why further restrictions should be imposed. In the first place, while the supply of public lands...
University of Pennsylvania is to establish, on certain conditions, undergraduate courses for women in every way equal to those now open to men. This step has been contemplated by the authorities for some time and was influenced by the success attained at Cornell with this system. A hall to cost $500,000 will be built on property presented by Colonel J. M. Bennett, to be devoted exclusively to the needs of the women students...
Before last year, when a Sophomore dinner was held for the first time in many years, the annual junior dinners while appreciated and distinctly worth while in increasing spirit of class fellowship, were always under a certain vague restraint due to an often unrealized formality on the part of men who felt constrained by the presence of members of their own class...
...revulsion of feeling after he has bound himself to years of service. If he were to act less on impulse, he might arrive at the conclusion that he could serve his country best by waiting and preparing for the possibility of a greater need, or he might discover that certain home duties and obligations did not justify the gratification of his desire to enter the service. The truest patriotism is after all that which lays aside self-gratification in any form and seeks intelligently the path of greatest usefulness...