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Often it is better to pass over a criticism and try to explain the critic. Be it said at once that I have no hostility toward the middle-western man. But I think that if he had a keener sense of humor he would not be so dead in earnest about attacking poor old Boston. He breezes into Harvard with a mental complex, of which Chicago possibly is the password. He finds here a large number of his class-mates already acquainted and firmly established in a society into which he cannot break as a Ford breaks into a show...
...looking back with a comfortable perspective over an experience of some fifteen years in teaching and numerous hours of the period of time spent in attempting to explain and make attractive the numerous and devious methods of admission to Harvard with which we have been favored during those years, it seems that the time has come to consider seriously some of the unreasonable admission requirements which tend to make the nervous candidate shy at the thought of Harvard. If we wish to compete in numbers with the other large universities, why not, in the name of common sense, remove some...
...Latin requirements certainly explain why many sub-Freshmen prefer to hole out on the New Haven green rather than hazard the artificial bunkers and traps which guard the course to Cambridge. If we are willing to temper the wind to the handicapped lamb, let us by all means knock down a few bars and allow the relieving breeze to guide him gently to us; if not, why indulge in poignant grief at our own exclusiveness? Let us be honest with ourselves and others--let us retain our artificial barriers and glory in the fact that we have them in order...
Juniors will have their last chance to make the Crimson Board at 7 o'clock this evening, when a competition for the Editorial Department will be started. Candidates will meet in the Crimson Building, and the Editorial Chairman will explain the work of the competition. Election will be made on the quality and number of editorials printed, and on the candidate's general value to the paper...
...competition for Freshmen managerial candidates will commence with a short though important meeting at 1.05 this afternoon in Beck 32, at which the manager will explain the competition. The week of May 2 the Freshman manager, assistant manager, and three second assistants will be named. The first two receive numerals, and the three second assistants will hold positions on the Regatta committee and will be in charge of the Harvard Invitation Regatta...