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...condition has hitherto resulted in nothing, and those familiar with the state of affairs have been forced to the conclusion that a combination of causes has produced the results which confront us today. The various explanations given have, logically enough, all been based on the exposition of conditions which exist, or are supposed to exist, at Harvard, and not at other colleges...
...colleges. Yet Harvard has thus made a fatal mistake in resting content with a policy which leaves her at least one year behind her rivals. Even if her rivals had remained stationary, we could not have hoped to be successful through an imitative policy, as many favorable conditions which exist in other colleges can be reproduced in only a very limited degree here. The superior attractions of Boston over those of a country town or a lesser city cannot be mitigated, nor can we abandon our stand against the semi-professional athlete, by which Harvard has seriously but wisely handicapped...
...favorable sentiment does exist, it is of the highest importance that active measures be taken to express it to the graduates. Their attitude practically says "If you, the college, want it, we will see what we can do to get it for you." The proposition calls for an emphatic reply and the opportunity for this reply will come next Tuesday night...
...meetings last night of the Graduate Club and the Natural History Society, are fair examples of a very active phase of University life. Side by side with the actual working departments of instruction there exist clubs of good standing which accomplish practical results by extending the work of the scholar and invest the subject matter with a social atmosphere which renders it doubly attractive...
...more or less representive of Harvard life. As a matter of fact, it is representative of only "a very little corner" thereof, and represents this corner in a far from attractive light. With the exception of Haydock, all the characters are unmanly, snobbish, morbid or unhappy. That such characters exist in every college class is of course undeniable, but they are, after all, not typical of this University or, let us hope, of any other...