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...hard for us to understand how people can have found the English language serviceable from the days of Chaucer to our own without the new and now widely employed term "bolshevism." What does it mean? Answer: The result that will follow the success of the other fellow's idea...
Harvard must start out after the war with a clean slate, and by dint of careful management create a circle of natural athletic friendships. Meeting the other fellow half-way must be our motto. And if the addition of this game to the schedule, helps to dispel the illusion, still prevalent, that the University wishes to play only two difficult matches a season, it will serve its purposes. Harvard is only too glad to have the opportunity of blotting out the memory of Tufts' victory...
...rescue. Among the conclusions that no wise man will fail to draw are that students are after all somewhat interested in the training they get, and that the cruel undergraduate, though he may ride an instructor to death in the classroom, is human enough not to want the poor fellow's children to die in a garret. The last paragraph is perhaps out of place. "At Oxford," said the immortal master of Balliol, "not even the youngest of us is infallible...
Consequently, they are often obliged to fall back, though they may not wish to do so, on association with their fellow countrymen and on conversation in their native languages. Thus, particularly in the first and most difficult year for foreign students in the University, when the struggle should be made as easy as possible for them, they find their difficulties greatest...
...excess of this quality that prevented him from gaining the scholarly reputation to which his brilliant abilities entitled him. He was really too unselfish to become a specialist, too much interested in his fellow-men to concentrate on a single field. His friends often used to remonstrate with him about this, and urged him to devote himself to productive scholarship, as the surest road to academic promotion. He would invariably admit the force of their arguments, and occasionally make an heroic effort to get started on a monograph; then some 'chore' would turn up, which others might regard...