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John R. Mott penetrated the student classes in Europe, Asia and Africa, and built up Christian movements there. He is the recognized leader of religious work among students in this country. With this glorious lifework as the background for his subject he comes to address us. But his subject aside, Dr. Mott has a personality that stimulates, and an understanding of life that unveils many of its mysteries...
...officer of the College, even "the young assistant," must have a point of view so different from that of undergraduates that to him the most conspicuous trait of undergraduate publications is likely to be youth. Now we may all, like the middle-aged teller of Mr. Conrad's glorious story of "Youth," wish the enthusiasms of that rosy age back again; but we are aware that in artistic performance, extreme youth is seldom capable of the highest achievement. For such weaknesses as appear in the present Advocate, youth is chiefly responsible...
Even as we try to persuade any doubting Juniors that they should flock to the Yard, the present Seniors occupy themselves with the first of the inter-dormitory smokers--as long and glorious a line, for 1914, we hope, as for 1913 which conceived them...
...will bloom on Saturday." Even the verdant green of the terra firma and the bingle of the bat on the ball are sometimes treacherous signs of the love-making season, but who can question the authority of the appearance of the hay lids? The weather man has promised a glorious day for the grass helmets on Saturday, and -- besides--the goals are hungry for that old brown derby...
...with the greatest pleasure that Pennsylvania again sends a crew to compete with Harvard, and we hope that there will be a race as glorious and as fiercely fought as the sport deserves--and that the best crew wins". JOHN ALEXANDER. Captain of the Pennsylvania Crew...