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Without intercollegiate matches freshman teams could not be maintained. The games with Yale and the race with Columbia form the one incentive to practice. It would be impossible to keep alive any interest in the teams by class contests and games with local high schools merely. And with the freshman teams other class teams will disappear. If "the main object of intercollegiate races and competitive contests is to increase the number of students who habitually take part in manly sports," the class teams, including freshman teams, should be strongly encouraged; and freshman intercollegiate contests could not possibly be excluded...
...periodical literature which is the first necessity of special research. This expense, which cannot well be diminished, if the University is to fulfill one of its main functions by promoting special investigation, prevents the purchase of as much of the more lasting literature of books as is necessary to keep the library effective. This, says Mr. Winser, is "the main lesson of our last year's experience...
...concert in Sanders Theatre last evening consisted entirely of classical music. Although to keep up with the times it is necessary to hear frequently music by more modern composers, nevertheless it is always a delight to any music lover to listen to three such acknowledged masterpieces. The three selections of this concert, all of which are familiar, were written by the three greatest masters of classical orchestral forms. Beethoven's Overture Egmont, written as a prelude to Goethe's drama of the same name, is one of the most dramatic and passionate of all the classical overtures. We have...
...should strive by our own deeds to make the University to which we belong better and nobler than when we found it. College men should lead not merely their own private, selfish lives, but they should live in the broader life of the University, and do their best to keep alive and promote all the higher interests which belong to an institution like Harvard...
Many persons have been surprised to learn that, with an Astronomical Observatory so well equipped and so renowned for excellent work, Harvard offers no chance to the undergraduates to study Astronomy. We have asked for such a course of instruction before, and we mean to keep the subject before the authorities until the course is provided. The Astronomical department is strongly in favor of the plan, for more universal knowledge of the science would add to the number of men who could apply themselves to original investigation. The only thing in the way of this course is that there...