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...know that never before has Harvard been in such urgent need of men. We have lost Rogers, Clarke, Bemis and Easton; and thus far we have looked in vain for men who can fully take their places. Yet I firmly believe that such men, at least that winners enough to bring back the cup, are right here in college. In this connection an extract from the Yale News in four columns of Monday, is extremely significant. It says: "She, (Harvard) has had advantages in point of numbers, and it is only by virtue of our greater enthusiasm and harder work...
...worth, and the time spend in grinding for an hour examination is taken from other courses, which have to be "cut" or neglected. "Bracing" once or twice a year does not do a man any good if he is lazy, and earnest students do not need "bracing." As to getting an idea of the questions on mid-year papers, anyone can go to the library and see what the questions have been for years, while the questions in an hour examination are often totally different from those given later. As to the fact of these examinations "being excellent tests...
...slight remonstrance to your editorial of the other day objecting to the hour examinations. While they may be disagreeable in some cases I think as a rule they are beneficial, especially in hard or doubtful courses. They count very little on the year's mark and no cramming need be done for them except by a few lazy men, whom it will not injure to "brace' once or twice during the year instead of doing all their study for the semiannuals. And they certainly are of great use in giving one an idea of the nature of the questions...
...whose enthusiasm, so intense at first, now seems to be ending in a feeble cloud of smoke. Up to the present time, the career of '91 has given promise of a brilliant future, but if its idea of showing appreciation for athletic victories is to repudiate its debts, it need not be surprised to fine a lack of vigor and energy in the work of both nine and crew. Men who can afford to strut about the college yard smoking Turkish cigarettes and expensive tobacco in handsome meerschaums, bragging of their eleven (the "finest), ought certainly to have the self...
...wane, and that we may look forward to the time when our classes will equal in numbers those of the large English universities. The number of scholarships has been largely increased by recent bequests, and we can assert with greater truth than ever that no man need fear, on the score of poverty, to make Harvard his home...