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...well past the "shower-bath" stage, but the war has necessarily interfered with the progress of singing at Harvard. Now, however, we may hope to see an interest in the singing of good, spirited and vital music that shall make itself felt at every college function, formal or informal, and so, eventually, at every graduate affair. There is no "college" occasion where singing is inappropriate; at football games, at athletic meets, at smokers, in clubs,--everywhere is singing desirable, not the half-hearted, heavy, rhythm less rumble that we have sometimes heard in the Stadium, but a clean-cut, vigorous...
...most of his longer efforts in prose, and accounts for a certain dissatisfaction which many grateful and loyal readers nevertheless feel in his criticism. Lowell was more richly endowed by nature and by breadth of reading than Matthew Arnold, for instance, but in the actual performance of the critical function he was surpassed in method by Arnold and perhaps in inerrant perception, in a limited field...
...agrees that more men should be encouraged to devote some of their time to exercise, and as it is seen that if equipment were provided more men would be given the advantage which they cannot now afford, and as the Athletic Association is clearly unable to make this its function, the University should devise some method whereby it could better control the financing of athletics, and purchase the outlay which is so essential to the physical development of its students. R. McA. LLOYD...
...fitted, Bravery's man in contact with the whole field of learning. Thus by a process" of alimination he can discover for what he is best adapted. When this is done, the plan of "Concentration" centers his studies in this field. Yale's plan does away with this function of the college by assuming a man's life work to be determined...
...same time Dr. Sargent's article alters our whole conception of the function of the department. Compulsory training is taken for granted. Two additional courses are inserted in the requirements for a degree. Our first vague impression was that the proposed readjustment would simply undertake a saner organization of the present system, a truly equal opportunity for all in physical training, and a removal of the semi-professional spirit. Compulsory athletics we could neither regard as practical nor as advisable. Those who had seen the actual working of compulsion suggested that the opposition which the idea raised in the individual...