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...demands upon the Hemen way Gymnasium, built many years ago, have grown to such proportions that it seems to me not an unreasonable suggestion that intended benefactors remember that here is a need. Comparison of the quarters of Harvard men with the Gymnasium facilities at the humblest of colleges is anything but favorable...
...January number of the Harvard Monthly is of the kind which is pleasant to remember. Whoever has kept files of this only undergraduate publication which pretends to serious literary purpose must have grown aware of how well the volumes hold their own. The pages are not apt to be instantly brilliant; but in many ways they prove to have a quality not quite ephemeral...
...Christian Association in the last four years has grown and broadened in all its religious and philanthropic activities. The devotional meetings and the Bible classes are more numerous and better attended each year, and through the philanthropic work an increasingly large number of men are brought into touch with charitable work in Cambridge or Boston. Thirty or forty men, for instance, are sent annually to assist with boys' clubs and men's clubs at the Riverside Alliance. Other men go to assist at the East End Christian Union, at the Francis E. Willard Settlement, at Dennison House, the Civic Service...
...affairs. I have learned that not more than 100 men handed in their names at the beginning of the season, and that of these not more than 75 ever appeared for practice. In spite of the fact that very few were dropped by the coaches the squad has gradually grown smaller by desertion until now it is difficult for the coaches to keep up a second eleven, and on the first a single player is being used to substitute two or more positions. For example, one man is playing substitute guard and fullback while another is placed, as necessity requires...
...safe to follow. Originality is not a mark of truth, but rather indeed are those ways of conduct most likely to be true which are not devised ready made by the brain of one man or one generation, but have very long been followed by humanity and have grown with the growing experience of men. The test of truth is in its work ing; the character of the different nations and different times with their different ideals teach us the relative worth of the different lines of thought and conduct...