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...should remember that the College is run for its work and not for its vacations. Therefore, it is its work which should stop and start evenly; its vacations. Therefore, it is its work which should stop and start evenly; its vacations should bear the ragged ends. This is the ideal which the Office had in mind in granting an experimental vacation which should be of sufficient length to include time for travel. We can, with honor, only follow the rules...
...doubters can be readily made by anyone who realizes fully the modern demands of education and that Harvard University is not so adequately equipped for the physical development of its students as a great University in this country should be. The tradition of an academy and of a cultured ideal are most valuable possessions for a university, but in these radio-active days, the higher thinkers need a different training from that followed at the time of Aristotle...
...which trains for usefulness train for health? But, in fact, is this being done for those who are not selected and naturally healthy athletes? It certainly is not taught in the class room examination halls. The cheering sections may stimulate but systematic and directed work is what counts. An ideal arrangement would be that every student be placed under the direct care of a properly qualified personal trainer or physical adviser who would direct his daily life, building him up physically as his instructors endeavor to do intellectually. Under such conditions would not the product be improved? Would...
...under any name, as a clearly defined College sport. And did you know that "regarded as an instrument of democracy and efficiency, it (the Harvard Union) has been a dreary waste of time, of money, and of enthusiasm?" True, it has not developed into a working model of an ideal democracy, but we hate to call it a "dreary waste," unless the time, money, and enthusiasm burnt at class meetings, mass meetings, and excellent lectures are considered to be thereby squandered...
...Justification of Athletic Leadership" maintains that "the prominent men in College are athletes because they are leaders and not leaders because they are athletes." The writer's earnestness and vigor make their way; but his sentences are uncomfortable: "The ideal position of athletics in collegiate life is not necessarily that of subordinate interests, in the sense that studies should occupy an undue proportion of the student's time, but that of being correlative to filling in the spaces which study leaves open, and supplying a stimulus fully as necessary to the body as scholastic exercises to the mind...