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However, and I am here expressing the opinion of all the students with whom I have spoken regarding the matter, the fault lies wholly with the miserable cheer leading there has been thus far this season...
...sailors are comrades, and I want to be friends with everyone. When a boy is called to war, it is his highest duty to answer his country's call. It is not his fault that he must have enemies. But when the war stops, we must become friends. Our life is too short to waste in holding a grudge against anyone. Sailors, who have faced a hurricane together, know what true comradeship is worth...
...blame in what is clearly a case of divided inadvertencies has little point, particularly in this admittedly extraordinary instance. Undergraduates find little fault with the conduct of examinations at Harvard in such matters of principle as the question of the honor system. Certain of its mechanics, however, are rather less than satisfactory. There is something about the proctor who giggles over the examination paper just before the official moment of release, who never has the ink at hand, or who is unprepared for a request of second bluebooks during a three hour examination, that sicklies over with the pale cast...
...phonetic-fault-finder Southwick worry less on how Al Smith enunciates and more on how Al meditates. And lest he forgets-a certain Republican president of a very recent administration did not noticeably slur his words but yet he was the cause of innumerable slurs upon his country...
Such negligence in the discharge of financial obligations is directly contrary to the first principle of sound government, whatever may be its magnitude. The fault has undoubtedly lain in divided responsibility and accumulating confusion of records rather than in any individual delinquency. Responsibility is bound to float rather uncertainly from one to another of an elective body of student officials; the custom of changing all class and college officers annually but widens, of course, the breach for error. But the mere fact that blame lies in the system rather than on specific heads does not mitigate the ill-effects...