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Criticism abounds among undergraduates. On all sides are heard complaints against this or that method of administration, and pessimistic views on the problems confronting the University. The present system of section meetings appeals to none: to the honor men it is a bore; to the indolent it is a bane. To many the section assistant is an unapproachable being, devoid of all human interests and of all the qualities that make a successful teacher. The athletic system is a source of anxiety to students who believe that at present intercollegiate sport is conducted on a commercial and professional basis. Although...
...choice of opponents in football. Vanderbilt, as the undisputed champion of the South, comes to the Stadium this year for the first time to try her skill against Harvard. When Harvard and Yale went to England for a field meet with Oxford and Cambridge, nothing but praise was heard for the scheme. Yet within our own country there has come about a certain localization of athletic competition, due in large part to the great distances separating the different sections. As a matter of convenience and economical management, most of our games must needs be with colleges of New England...
...football team, and J. W. Farley '99, the organizing committee have secured the three men who can speak with the greatest authority on matters relative to the team. Attendance at this mass meeting is an opportunity not to be dismissed lightly, as these men are seldom heard from the platform...
...years are so many that I can boast of having been a personal friend and an occasional guest of Dr. Walker from whose lips I heard the prediction that "some time a commodious building would be donated to Harvard College as a Social Centre for all students, and instructors, and officers, and resident or visiting graduates, wherein everybody would seek to know everybody through informal and friendly conversations without regard to age, or class, or title, or vocational position...
...held as soon as possible the first of a series of mass meetings, and at these mass meetings most of the time should be spent in mastering thoroughly several of the old football songs. In this way something like good singing at the Princeton game, and thereafter, may be heard; otherwise what little singing there is will be even worse than that heard at some of the games last year...