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Your editorial yesterday entitled Senior sluggishness was very much to the point. We have heard so much about Harvard indifference and Harvard spirit lately that we have nightmares about it all. We have also seen contradictions: there is no such thing as Harvard indifference. "The committees are begging and pleading; so are the coaches and the captains, not to say anything of the Instructors. What's the matter? It Isn't Indifference, it isn't sluggishness, it is what the old Saxon king called "the I-don't-give-a-damn spirit...
...John F. Heard Jr. '12 to speak at the Harvard Club...
...John Heard Jr. '12 will speak on "Whaling Off the North Coast of Alaska", a topic the material of which was drawn from personal experience, at a meeting of the Harvard Travellers' Club in the Harvard Club of Boston at 8 o'clock tonight. All members of the University are invited to attend...
...hall, when two men of one team are fighting with an opponent for possession of the ball is, "foul", "foul", "foul"--"two men in"--also when a player taps the ball, then catches it either at center or on a toss up the cry from the spectators is again heard. Neither is illegal according to the rules drafted by the joint rules committee and adopted by all colleges, high schools and amateur teams. The rule specifically states that when the referee puts the ball into play in the center or elsewhere, where a ball is tossed up between two players...
...always tell a Harvard man, but you can't tell him anything," as proof of his allegation. As a neophyte I was considerably impressed by this statement, but managed somehow to reserve my judgment and entered the Freshman class in 1916. In all this time I had heard nothing of the high intellectual standards which prevail at Harvard; the most I knew of the University was its supremacy in athletics (there had been a football victory about that time, I believe...