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...such in the long run. Our team has been beaten twice; - the first time largely by luck, the second time by distinctly superior playing. Nevertheless, we believe we never stood in a more favorable light before the public than at present. Feeling against the "anything to win" policy has grown very strong, and the sooner that policy is abandoned the better for amateur sport everywhere...
...students who have expressed their wish to have a part in making the memorial to the late Frank Bolles, and to those who have so far postponed action the notice of the treasurer of the fund is important. It is a satisfaction to see how large the fund has grown in a time when heavy financial depression has stopped increase in nearly all similar funds. It testifies to the high regard that Secretary Bolles won in his life time. As Bishop Lawrence said, he raised an office that had been nothing more than a clerkship to be a centre...
...gamins who flock into the College grounds, especially during the latter part of the day, have grown so numer-out of late that they are rapidly becoming nuisances. No one objects because a moderate number of people use the College yard as a thoroughfare; a good many object to having the yard turned into a public common...
...another way, this move of the Prospect Union concerns Harvard men even more closely. The enlarged quarters will be accompanied by an increased need of teachers from the University, and there ought to be no lack of response to this need. Organized with only forty charter members, it has grown, within less than four years, so as to have more than six hundred members. By it a class of people are interested in education whom it would be impossible to reach as effectually in any other manner, and in whom any interest in such matters is commonly despaired...
Class feeling is gradually weakening here at Harvard. It is a result to which many causes are contributory. The classes have grown so large that acquaintance between all the members is impossible; probably no man knows, even by sight, all the men in his class, and most men would find it difficult to connect faces with half the names by which, according to the catalogue, their classmates are called. Then, too, the policy of the University now gives to each student full scope in developing his special abilities or tastes. A lively and initiatory interest in their work has been...