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...University and it gives to him. There is about us all, when members of a university, the sense of a soldiers life. The university is the home of the ideal and, as President Gilman once said, if it does not hold up idealism, it has no reason to exist. Such a condition is necessary to oppose to the materialism of the business world. Thus it is that we get religion here in our midst. But the forced religion of the past which formed a part of the College curriculum was incompatible with truth as the standard of Harvard. University life...
This is more true of heavy line men than of backs and ends. Whereas in former years the latter have abounded, it is very probable that toward the middle of next season, when injuries begin to tell, the backs will run short. Should such a scarcity exist, it might produce a very serious situation, as the ends and backs material depends upon a very few men, with little or no reserve to draw on. Campbell, Bowditch, Ristine, J. L. Motley, Morse, Clark and MacDonald constitute the end material, but only the first two are of first rate ability. If they...
...other hand, the people have many and terrible vices. They have no conception of truth, and will say anything in order to benefit themselves. Great dishonesty and corruption exist among the government officials, who live on the money that they acquire dishonestly. Only about one-ninth of the taxes reaches the treasury, the other eight-ninths being stolen by the various officials through whose hands the taxes pass. Justice may be bought, and, in a lawsuit, that side usually wins which pays the court the larger fee. Another feature in the executive government is the extreme cruelty used by officials...
...tide from the Charles River Basin twice daily would injure certain channels of the harbor, but in opposition to this contention several of the most eminent engineers of the state have expressed the opinion that the tidal scour theory has no application to the conditions which exist in those channels of Boston Harbor over which the tidal prism of the Charles river Basin moves...
...that in almost all questions of the day the other man has nearly as good a right to his opinion as he has to his. Recognition of this facts means broad-mindedness and fairness in discussion. Just here is where intercollegiate debating may prove something of a nuisance. It exists for the purpose of winning something, and therefore the undergraduate--not the coaches--wonders whether he may not contrive "trick plays" in his argument, whether he, too, cannot snap the ball back with double passes, and in his course work he comes to you with a brief in which...