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...return to Miss Kelley's idea. Mary, the writer of the story, thinks that all is based on a wonderful and indescribable thing--beauty. This is her fundamental element; she tries to find out what it is. She turns down the puppy love of a youthful Yale graduate; she almost yields to a believer in free love, but doesn't; ultimately she marries a man who knows what is really the inspiring force of this world--love. At the same time, her mother and father, after being separated because of lack of expression of love, further exemplify the principle...
...young man, home from preschool on a long vacation, seeing older acquaintances come home from colleges on similar vacations, but Harvard acquaintances on very abbreviated ones, this circumstance could be the deluding element in a choice of college. For unless he has violent prejudice for Harvard he may have arrived at the point of neutrality in his estimate of several collages, and then it is the pounding of small factors, perhaps mostly unconsciously, that strengthen or weaken his regard for Harvard. Altho in the actual choosing of a college a student may weigh only the greater elements for or against...
...resentment arisen among westerners? The answer seems to be because Harvard has been made unattractive to them. For westerners are absolutely intolerant of Boston's traditional "mental luxury of conservatism" which is more tritely expressed by the word "snobbishness", and the snobbish element must be removed before we can stifle this detrimental hostility. The undergraduate body is not snobbish. Then, let us be sure that we choose representatives of the students who are true representatives! ROBERT S. KELLER '23. March...
...efficient business organizations of the country. It requires no extreme powers of observation for each of the players to take advantage of this opportunity to familiarize himself with causes and effects and the methods which bring about the effects by logical development and without the entrance of the element of chance to any greater degree than is found in life in the business world. This phase of the football training fully deserves special mention because it adds just that much to the other and more obvious advantages which participation in the game merits...
...present preparation for the divisional examinations is so scanty that the marking standard is necessarily too low in order that a fair number of candidates may be passed. This introduces into the examination an extra element of luck, which would be eliminated if the candidates were expected to be adequately prepared. With this method, the number of men who get by without having the minimum of knowledge which should be required would be less than...