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Wendell's influence will live; for he has made the Harvard ideal of English synonymous with the Wendell ideal, and able men trained in the Wendell school of thinking will carry on the work which he has so successfully begun. Cleveland Plain Dealer
Since the class of 1918 was the first to live in the Freshman dormitories, its progress has been watched with particular closeness by all interested in the ultimate success of the new system. A comparison between the number of men from 1918 desiring to live in the Yard, and the number from this year's Senior Class shows that over sixty more Juniors applied for rooms this year. Although it cannot be concluded from this fact that the Freshman dormitories are a great improvement over the scattered plan of rooming of former classes, it is evident that a more universal...
...satisfactory four mile course at home, and the result has been the establishment of elaborate training quarters away from the atmosphere and routine of university life, where rowing is no longer a recreation for men engaged in college work, but where for nearly a month every year they live to row, supported by gate receipts from commercialized athletics, or by the generosity of opulent patrons. The size of the rowing budget is thus enormously and unnecessarily increased, and rowing itself suffers from being considered a drain on the athletic treasury, and the beneficiary of 'productive' athletic activities...
...merely a student problem. It is the expression of an inherent human tendency. Maroon a hundred persons on a Pacific island and in a fortnight they will split into two or three groups. The English universities have a college system, and the world in which a man will live is determined by himself by his choice of a college. Many American schools have the fraternity system, notably Cornell, where there are more than half a hundred societies. Where the fraternities do not exist other social organizations take their places. At Princeton the eating clubs, some of them of respectable antiquity...
...clock. The committee has decided upon this further hour in order to make up for the unavoidable delay due to the late printing of the applications. Postal cards have been sent to all members of the Class of 1918 requesting them to state whether or not they intend to live in the Yard next year. Juniors and all men whose last year in College will be 1917-18 should at once from groups of not more than 12 men. The larger groups will be given the preference in the allotment of rooms, which will be done...