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...first advance, seen most prominently in the new Conference Committee, is the more important of the two, as far as the general machinery and government of the college are concerned. Co-operation is coming to be recognized as an important element of success. It has surely proved its importance in college management very strongly during the past year. It has aroused far better feeling among all concerned than has ever existed before, and this better feeling has added largely to the successes of the year. Harvard is better for it intellectually, as well as morally, permanently as well as temporarily...
...hoped that the measures taken at the last yard concert, to keep the mucker element at a proper distance, are but the beginnings of an action still more stringent and effective. A little energy and firmness, would very soon teach the objectionable young mucker that his place is not in the yard, and his task not to make himself as disagreeable, and everybody else as uncomfortable, as possible. Perhaps a good strong policeman, with a stronger "billy," would be as effective as anything else. But a policeman could not attain complete success, if he had not the co-operation...
...most trying experiences of Harvard student life is the sensation of daily contact with a source of annoyance which time can never dull and which increases in its power of discomfort as time goes on. The troubles arising from the increasing advent of the "mucker" element have never assumed such proportions as at the present. Every form of this much agitated question has been discussed again and again. And as often the college authorities have refused to take any notice of the matter. But it is at last time that some action should be taken, if not by the faclty...
Among the men interested in boating, there has been this year but little inclination to confidently name the winner in the class races. Since Col. Bancroft has ceased coaching the various crews, there has been, it would seem, an element of uncertainty in regard to the final result of the year's work. The upper-classmen who have carefully watched the progress made by the men in training, declare the chances of success are remarkably even, with the odds, perhaps, slightly in favor of eighty-five. The freshman crew, inexperienced as it is, must not be disregarded in naming...
...should aim at health of body, which is liable to injury from drink, for any temporary stimulus is always followed by a strong reaction; (4), he should have thought for his influence on others, inasmuch as often a mere word has an unspeakable influence, and example is a powerful element in life...