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...other crews took advantage of the ideal weather, indulging in long easy paddles. Coach Wray accompanied the University eight, and laid emphasis in his coaching on getting a firmer catch and drive, with the result that on its return to the boat-house, the crew showed marked improvement...
Tomorrow and Saturday will see the Intercollegiate Track Meet again in the stadium. We cannot hope for a better meet than was held there two years ago under ideal weather conditions, when the finest athletes of the country met and records went to smash. This year we are sure only of the finest athletes, and even among these there seems to be a doubtful choice of winners. It is a privilege for Harvard to have such a meet on her field again, in return for which we can give our rivals and guests a cordial welcome and a sportsmanlike reception...
...Powys argued that with Socialism would come an end of graft in public office, because the incentive for private ownership would vanish with the elimination of private property. The speaker's ideal was to have machinery supplant much present human labor, so that men will have shorter working hours and consequently a chance to develop genius and individuality...
...trustees, stands ready to take the step at any time. Whether or not the deplorable opposition of a few men is to be allowed to ruin an exceptional opportunity is uncertain. One united literary magazine to supplant two that are necessarily in a state of constant competition is an ideal to be striven for, and, it is to be hoped, one to be attained. PHILIP W. THAYER...
...signifies in the personal experiences of Dante. At the very outset, Dante is shown that he cannot take the direct route he had chosen, towards the light of God, because of the obstacles he had created through his own sin. Beatrice, later, reproaches him for losing his brilliant ideal, at her death, and falling into sin, such that he can find Heaven only through Hell. One of the great motifs of the poem lies in this fall of Dante, under the pressure of circumstances, from a high spiritual life to a somewhat lower level. And yet Dante shows his great...