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...probation with a surprising regularity at certain times every year. Many come to expect it as a matter of course-rather a bore, indeed, because it places them under the necessity of ceasing cutting, but otherwise hardly worthy of passing notice. That such an attitude should be allowed to exist is unfortunate. Probation should be made to mean something more. It is true that the matter is serious when some excellent athlete is not able to compete in sports because of probation. The affair is then lamented by the whole College as well as the unfortunate individual, but this occurs...
...Harvard men vote in Cambridge such a state of things could not long exist, for no city department would find it possible to maintain itself under conditions as existing. Being powerless at election times, we can do little or nothing...
...close of his term of office, send to all members of his class who have paid aught into the treasury a statement of income and outgo. Whether this be justifiable on one ground or another is quite immaterial; the fact that such loose methods, such secrecy, as now prevail, exist and continue merely by the acquiescence of the classes in "things as they are," is reason for a new system which shall be at once more sound and more democratic...
...habit once firmly established in a community is apt to continue unnoticed long after it has become, in the opinion of outsiders, an unmitigated evil. Equally evident must be the fact that of all communities a large college would be the last place where such a situation could exist for any length of time. But in dealing with the delicate subject of undergraduate honor, we feel that an abuse, the seriousness of which few suspect, has flourished in our midst far longer than any excuse can justify...
...minor sports exist primarily for the pleasure and exercise of those who take part in them. Sport for the sake of victory alone has much in common with prize-fighting. It is valuable in all forms of sport to have system and definiteness; organized teams and outside contests are excellent means to obtain them, but they should be secondary. The tail has wagged the dog for a long time at Harvard...