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...last analysis, these statements are true, but no one realizes better than President Lowell that the ideal he has in mind has never been reached. Man has been unable to devise any method by which he may express his finer emotions in common with his fellow-men, and it seems impossible that he ever will. While organized cheering is in theory far from perfect, still it seems to be the only method by which hundreds of enthusiastic and care-free supporters of a college team can give vent to their enthusiasm and the spirit of loyalty, manliness, and sportsmanship that...
...Ryan '11 maintained that the essential condition of a two-party system is lacking in France. There are not two parties because the French seek the ideal in politics rather than the practical. Reasonable interpretation, however, gives ground for the opinion that parliamentary government in Frances is approaching the goal of efficiency...
...backs, Wendell of Harvard, Pendleton of Princeton and Mercer of Pennsylvania make an ideal backfield. Wendell is the best line-plunger on the gridiron. He carries his charge farther through and exhibits a greater ability to keep his feet than anyone else who has tried this play...
This is not a plea for wearisome grinding at set tasks. There can be too much studying of courses but not too much work upon subjects. One may welcome Mr. Ware's ideal of undergraduate activity--that the maturer graduates should be treated with the respect they really deserve, and by pointing attention to things worth doing to arouse in them the intelligent interest which they are ready to manifest. This might, as the writer suggests, be afforded in the later years of undergraduate life by leading them to concentrate upon practical questions of real difficulty...
...deep loss not only to those who had the opportunity to be his friends but also to all Harvard men. In him a real leader of men is lost and one who when he lived was an unsurpassed example of that manhood which most nearly approaches the Harvard ideal...