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...best way to make the American people more interested in scholarship than in athletics is by proving that our prize scholars, even more than our prize athletes, represent the type of men for which there is public need. The competitions must be so arranged that the prize winners justify the selection by their subsequent life. But have our prize winners done as much for the public as it has a right to expect? That the men who have won scholastic distinction at Harvard have later won more than their proportionate share of honor in the outside world has been shown...
...only authority in the land in the eyes of the new immigrant, who knows nothing of Constitution or Congress. If he forces some poor push-cart man to give him a bribe, the immigrant forms his ideas of American justice from that action. These two phases greatly increase the need of an honest police force...
...meeting of basketball candidates was held last night in the Trophy Room of the Union. E. S. Allen '09, captain of the University team, spoke on the prospects for the year, emphasizing the need of team play. He also touched upon the subject of training. If these essentials are regarded, the team should make a much better record than last year...
President Lincoln of the Economic Club in his introductory address stated the conditions which have rendered municipal reform so pressing a need. The government of cities has deteriorated and problems now present themselves which had no importance a generation ago. Every community which has suffered from the dishonest administration of its affairs has a keen interest in municipal reform...
...experiment of a government administered by one man has always failed. Another defect in our municipal systems is the election of delegates by wards or districts, the small interests of each local division interfering with the general interests of the community. Boston illustrates these three systems which need reform...