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Following is a summary of the scores of past CRIMSON victories, appended for the benefit of the sporting element...
...free elective system is the most natural system of undergraduate work, as it is the only one in which the element of individual fitness is allowed to play a part. There are as many different temperaments in a college community as there are different men. All cannot be made to conform to the same standard. The attempt to establish such a standard gives us merely the out-word form of scholarship and not its real benefits. The worth of a liberal study does not depend primarily upon the subject matter studied but upon the response which it awakens...
...admission to Harvard College; second, the high standard of the several professional courses in the Scientific School, such as mining engineering, electrical engineering, architecture, etc., as distinguished from the course in general science, which obviously demands less concentration on a single subject and gives less play to the element of professional seal which dominates the professional courses...
...place for training men for honorable, generous, and efficient service to the community at large, there ought not to be more than one opinion on the question whether a game, played under the actual conditions of football, and with the barbaric ethics of warfare, can be a useful element in the training of young men for such high service. The essential thing for university youth to learn is the difference between practising generously a liberal art and driving a trade or winning a fight, no matter how. Civilization has long been in possession of much higher ethics than those...
France has had a short experience in self-government and the sharp religious divisions of the country have hampered its rulers. At present there are a good representative system, honest elections on the whole and a fair judiciary, but the government is too centralized and still has a certain element of instability...