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Yesterday afternoon the candidates for the Mott Haven team assembled in the meeting room of the gymnasium. The unusually large number of men who presented themselves to try for positions was gratifying, but Harvard has especial need of a strong team this year. Yale came very near wresting the cup from us last lear, and judging from the present outlook she will make the contest even closer this spring. The men who won prizes for Yale are almost, without exception, still in college; while we have lost Baker, the winner of the 220 yards dash; and Bradley, Chamberlain, Smith...
...kinds of authority, - the authority of moral guidance, and the authority of repressive control. Which shall college authority be? Authority is necessary, ever-present authority. If the young man's choice is to become a thing of worth, it must be encompassed with limitations. But as the need of these limitations springs from the imperfections of choice, so should their aim be to perfect choice, not to repress it. This moral authority is what the new education seeks. As the elective principle is essentially ethical, its limitations, if helpfully congruous, must be ethical too. They must be simply the means...
...know in every case, that when a holder of a scholarship lives in a $300 room, and, compared to the average student, in real luxury, that man is either frightfully green and imprudent in his expenditures, or else he is frightfully dishonest in taking money he does not need...
...certain to get on the crew. Care should be taken in the use of personification, and - in stringing your banjo. I think you will easily see that the writers purpose has been defeated - in three rounds. Personification often lends picturesqueness and - she's a daisy." Is scacely need to point out which are the instructor's words and which those of our talkative friends...
...Society now offers for sale to its members a complete assortment of gentleman's furnishing goods of excellent quality and make. There is scarcely a need which cannot be supplied immediately from the stock always on hand at the store...