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...fact that this short spring practice has been a part of the University policy since the Haughton system was first adopted dispels any apprehension that we are failing to prepare sufficiently for the coming season. We can scarcely find fault with any part of a system which has proved so successful. The system, however, can reach its greatest effectiveness only when coach and players alike take their full share. Continued success next fall demands that when the season opens today, a squad even larger than in past years should report...
...were not as bad as they seem. In both the two-mile and one-mile University relay races, the half-lap leads which the opposing teams had at the finish were due to one runner on each team, who lost distance through inability to take the corners properly. This fault was corrected, and was not in evidence in any of the later relay races. Furthermore, the Yale team this year is one of the fastest, if not the fastest, which has ever worn the Blue. In a race against Cornell at the N. Y. A. C. on March...
...student acquires a working knowledge of the context and is led to ruminate upon its meaning. The average undergraduate, however, sits stupidly through his lectures, mechanically jots a few incoherent notes, and goes away without a thought as to what has just been said. It is not altogether his fault; some lectures are extremely monotonous and uninteresting. In vain do professors encourage outside discussion among students, or announce voluntary consultation hours. The modern youth comes to college to learn--but not to study...
...never be anything but a stumbling-block to advancement: the attitude of mind which brings it about is unworthy of the twentieth century; above all, the indifference of the public, which allows such a condition of affairs to go uninvestigated, is growing to be a characteristic national fault. Let us not forget that the burden of seeing that full justice, neither more or less, is done even to the most abandoned of alien "reds" rests on the conscience of every citizen of this Republic...
...lesser degree on its athletic prowess. A college is mistaken if it assumes that the glamor of gridiron victories will offset a mediocre scholastic standard. Intercollegiate athletics, however, are of such importance that, if it is an error to carry them to excess. It is also a fault to burden them unnecessarily with overfine restrictions. The rule, which makes ineligible for one year students transferring from some other institution, is just and fair, for it prevents men, who may not be able to pass the entrance requirements, from coming to Harvard merely to gain fame as athletes...