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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...full account of the Commencement Day Exercises with reports of the meetings of the various alumni organizations is given. Following this are reports of spring athletics, chiefly baseball and rowing. An excellent cut of the 1908 crew in its boat and a group picture of the ball team are used to illustrate the reports. The Phi Beta Kappa poem of 1908 "An Ode to the Universities" by Percy W. McKaye '97 and a short poem by F. W. Batchelder '60 complete the issue...
...have been made with a view to having the student body give some concrete appreciation to high scholarship each year, but little has ever been accomplished in that direction. It is too often the fate of the scholar to be appreciated by very few men other than a limited group of teachers with a few intimate friends; furthermore, there are few who attempt to deny that the proper proportion in the recognition of the athlete and the scholar by the undergraduate is a thing of the past and the disproportion shows no signs of decrease...
...twenty or more highest scholars in the class give to the men an excellent reward for their efforts but it does not come from the students as a whole. The broadening of the scope of the requirements of election recently has been of distinct advantage in securing a group of men representing the best and sanest types of intellectual students, but it is not given them by the entire body of students of which they are a part and so can never be as powerful an approbation as that given for athletic prowess...
...other hand, here at Harvard at least, there is a small group of Seniors who are working harder and more earnestly for the College than they ever worked before; who have made use of their four years of experience to guide their efforts into profitable channels. They are no longer working for any personal glory or advancement, but because they are the natural leaders and enjoy working in a good cause as much as their more careless classmates enjoy their theatre trips, canoeing parties and quiet loafs...
...dormitory in giving a man opportunities for friendship with men both older and younger than himself. Whatever the possibilities of this scheme may be for men with a year or the experience in undergraduate life, it is rarely true of Freshmen, and Princeton is fortunate in being able to group a large number of their first year men near each other where they belong, rather than scattering them at random...