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...this situation on the part of seats of learning which value their own self-respect and bear at the same time some regard for the mental and moral status of boys whom they receive as students, would be attended by immediate results. An association of institutions solemnly joined in compact to end, with respect to themselves at least, the present situation as regards preparatory school football players, would be attended by salutatory results, and would do more for football than anything since the establishment of the one-year residence rule...
...Forum a suitable home and benefits the Union considerably by identifying with it one of the most valuable of undergraduate institutions. On account of the Union's great size and diversity of interests, however, the administration of the Forum very properly lies with the Speakers' Club, a small and compact organization whose specific purpose is to promote discussion of current events. With the two organizations joined in the personnel of the 1915-16 committee, the Forum should develop into a leading activity for stimulating undergraduate interest in the big questions...
...unanimously believed by the coaches of the Freshman team that the reason for the defeat was the shortness of the 1918 schedule. Four games cannot serve to give a number of men, who have never played together before, enough experience in actual outside contest, to round them into a compact and efficient unit. It is generally expected that this will be changed next year...
...long delayed Territorial Club booklet has at last appeared. The final production is well worth the trouble which it has necessitated, and much credit is due those who have persevered to the accomplishment of the undertaking. Sufficiently compact to be easily read through, while at the same time covering every important undergraduate interest, the volume is well adapted to serve its purpose of representing Harvard from a strictly undergraduate point of view. Attractive in general appearance, well illustrated, and with excellent reviews of all student activities from the pens of those undergraduates best qualified to discuss them, the book...
...plan should read and digest. Of course the question of its value is one which will never be entirely settled; but on one side there stands the argument, far outweighing the cry against it as the end of Harvard individualism, that "By being brought at once into the compact body of the class they (the Freshmen) can be placed in a large stream of college life flowing in a larger channel than any smaller group they meet today." And then there is the matter of graduating in three or three and a half years, In addition to President Lowell...