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...natural that men who are about to select a list of names which whey consider of most worth, should be more or less influenced by personal preferences. The only offset to this tendency is, that as the prejudices of the reading public of New York are apt to differ from those of the reading public of Boston, the errors made by a New Yorker will naturally be counter-balanced by those made by a Bostonian. But in the case of the recent vote, the number of votes was entirely too small to permit this influence to have much force...
Looking carefully over the two lists we find that 26 of our names were also on the Critic's, and that those where we differ compare favorably with the critic's men. Harvard is well represented, her graduates being many and occupying prominent places...
...both during the discussions of last year and during the present controversy, it has seemed to me that the question of competition in athletics has had considerable underlying influence in the formation of regulations. This is one of the points upon which the faculty and the undergraduates seem to differ. It is perhaps desirable, as the faculty appear to wish, to lessen the element of competition. But can the faculty do this and at the same time accomplish what is generally accepted as their aim, viz.: promote athletic interests, or perhaps, rather, to save them? Is there not a direct...
...long as graduates from different colleges are allowed to go into the world to compete for the prizes of life, "the conditions under which' they compete should be as hearty equal as possible. It is manifest that the conditions could not be equal' while the colleges differ in respect to the number and wealth of their students, the worth of their property, and the value of their foundation." Therefore...
...students are much more approachable than they ordinarily are and often yield to instincts which, were it not for the infusion of said spirits, would have no influence whatever. We have every reason to suppose from what we have seen that the close of the recent examination does not differ in the least from similar occasions in the past and that the spirit of which we speak is as prevalent as usual. Such being the case, the managers of the various college organizations whose pleasant duty it is to solicit subscriptions for the interests they represent, can choose no better...