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...hard scrimmage yesterday afternoon, stressing especially the attack and passing to the man under the basket. In Saturday's game with Worcester Academy, the men showed particular weakness in putting the ball in action after the tap-off, and yesterday's work included an effort to correct this fault...
...still popular, there must be a reason for it. If men still want to know that 57 lynchings were recorded during the year 1922, that the Herrin murderers are to be punished, and that two men were tortured in the Mer Rouge outrage, it must be the fault of "life", and not primarily of literature. One optimistic critic offers the suggestion that it is not even a "fault" really. Men read of murders because their own daily life is so far away from them. And from a second point of view, the publicity of such things helps to make...
...locust, at regular intervals. History reports it appeared before as a hybrid insect, related to the late frivolous sheet, "The Harvard Magazine", or the "Mag". There are other instances with which it is needless to irk the student (or if there are not, the art of pseudology is at fault...
...this the hard-worked Office is not entirely to blame. A major part of the fault lies with the individual section man, assistant, and instructor. He is the one who gives the marks upon which the Administrative department must take action, and all to frequently he is either careless or indifferent in cases that demand individual consideration. Sometimes it is an over-wrought sense of dignity that causes the trouble, sometimes the fallacious theory that every undergraduate delights in trying to "put one over on him"-and at all times there is a sad lack of that kindly humanity appreciated...
...book learning", then no one need worry; both are still to be found for the seeking. But true scholars seem to be born not made; and a true scholar and a true grind, wholly different characters by the bye, are both usually impervious to anything but their books. The fault is surely not with them...