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...honor which should be paid for, if not bought, by a certain amount of effective work. For anyone to receive office with bored indifference or with the knowledge that he has neither the time nor inclination to fulfil its duties, is too plain a mistake to need comment. And yet this sort of mistake is made many times each year. We refer especially to the smaller clubs and societies with no particular prestige to insure their continuance...
...current number of the Monthly contains a harsh editorial comment on the young instructor at Harvard--a somewhat exaggerated statement, written from a not altogether unbiased point of view. After discussing the absurd position in which certain Seniors have been placed by appointment to positions as assistants in courses where they must correct the work of their own classmates, the editorial proceeds to discredit the entire system of employing men but recently graduated, as instructors in undergraduate courses. Such "a man," says the editorial, "who goes directly from his undergraduate work here into the work of teaching other Harvard undergraduates...
...Philoctetes" and of Oenone as "a demi-goddess--who can heal mortal wounds--and the love of Paris until he saw Helen" ought not to be necessary in a college community, but perhaps the author is right in taking no chances. The other poems call for no special comment H. Bagedorn's "Song among Ruins" is finished and pleasing, W. H. Wright's "Ballad of Primeval Things," conventional. A. Davis's "Battle Hymn" suffers from too evident striving for vigorous phrases, which sometimes ends in grotesqueness...
...what purports to be "a deliberate critical review of Harvard's (athletic) course for twenty years," Mr. Caspar Whitney has sought to explain and comment on the upheaval in our athletics during the past year in the May "Outing," which has just appeared. Had Mr. Whitney taken the trouble to ascertain the facts of the situation more carefully, his opinions as an impartial observer would carry more weight with those of us, at least, who are more or less familiar with conditions. When he says that soon after the Yale football game last fall, the Governing Boards appointed an investigating...
During the recess the Yale News took occasion to comment editorially on the increased democratic and class spirit at Harvard, and although their knowledge of conditions here at present and in the past was, as they stated, superficial, we nevertheless thank them sincerely for the sentiments expressed. After commenting on the large number of class smokers and dinners, Senior buttons and dormitories, the News suggests that the time has come when "in justice to Harvard" Yale men should drop the inherited prejudices which have existed and should recognize that after all both universities have more or less the same social...