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This afternoon the University tennis team in the first match of its southern trip meets the Agawam Hunt Club in Providence, Rhode Island. Last year because of wet courts the match was not completed, each team having scored one point. D. McK, Key '22 and G. C. Guild '23 scored this point when they defeated A. Ingraham and Cosseboom of the Agawam Hunt Club...
...question of why the overage young American goes to college, there is nowadays a common explanation: he goes, or is sent, to increase his earning capacity. Perhaps that confession seems quite proper; yet in it lies the key to a large part of Harvard's difficulties. A liberal education is not intended to increase a man's earning capacity. It does so merely as an incidental; and many men, mistaking the incidental for the final end, are now seeking an education for that sole purpose. It is they, as much as any, who are disturbing the University's program. Bent...
Unfortunately, a certain group of undergraduates make a fetish of "recognition". They worship the varsity letter, the "cum laude", the Phi Beta Kappa key, not for the worthy efforts these symbols represent, but for the fancied prestige they infer. Failing to see that all glory depends on whole-hearted devotion to work, they attribute the glamor of the varsity letter to some intrinsic quality rather than to the strenuous efforts of generations of athletes. Their fatuous grinding away for "recognition" has for its goal an impossible flaunting of decorations, while the "big" man is invariably the least ostentatious...
...Power" wrote the great French novelist, Balzac, in "The Country Doctor", "is, as it were, the heart of the State. Nature, in all her creations, shuts in the vital principle to give it greater stamina; so with the body politic." This is the key to the study of government. The national State is the most powerful creature in the modern world. Hence, even if its study were not a matter of importance, it would be a fascinating diversion for educated men. But it happens to be a study of the greatest importance. We live in a world which is mostly...
...statistics of "H" men's mid-year marks published in another column of today's issue come as an interesting coincidence after Professor Bliss Perry's statement Monday night that a major letter and Phi Beta Kappa Key are by no means incompatible. Contrary to the popular idea that athletes get through college by the "skin of their teeth" and the kindness of their instructors, the results compiled show that not only the athletes but even those black sheep the managers and their assistants stand, if anything, rather better scholastically than do the rank and file of the college...