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...hand of the scholar who is also a natural teacher. If scholarship is too greatly rewarded, teachers grow scarce, and all but the extraordinary student are left in the lurch. An even balance between instructive words and sublime deeds must be kept, if the college is to avoid the fate of some of its follows who have become mere graduate schools...
...nourishing food are of the past. Instead, the new student hears of the case of the undergraduate who made the startling discovery that he studied better when he exercised; of the cut-loose prep school boy who turned playboy when he found freedom as a Freshman, and of his fate at mid-years, and that of the four hundred others "in this very room that will never graduate from Harvard...
Such is the task that confronts the Freshman, to be accomplished in the preposterously short period of three days. And on the success of the enterprise will often depend the fate of those who find themselves burdened in the middle of the year with an impossible schedule. If the "Freshman Days" must offer a found of pleasant surprise parties, they should afford what is far more important--an opportunity for a spell of concentrated course research...
When President Machado flatly refused to treat with Mediator Welles, the Army officers knew it was for them to decide Cuba's fate. While the President slept, they discussed his obduracy, saw that they must either draw more of their countrymen's blood to uphold Machado, or depose him. Early Friday afternoon, Battalion No. 1 of the Cabana Fortress was first to train its guns upon the $2,000,000 Presidential Palace of Carrara marble, decorated by Manhattan's Tiffany Studios. The guns did not fire, but soon Castillo de la Real Fuerza and all other Havana...
...Some may elect to join the spineless drift toward impending doom. Most, however, will choose, to struggle, trusting that a valiant resistance may perchance postpone somewhat the evil day, and perhaps soften its disasters, and at least guarantee to themselves the self respect of fighting against fate...