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...much for that." Professor Webster and a great many critics of American higher education would take this instance as typical of the proverbial Harvard indifference. There is still considerable justification for their opinion. Yet during the last two years Americans, and American students in particular, have undoubtedly tended to face more seriously the intellectual and social problems which they encounter. This sudden Renaissance is part of the backwash of war. It is witnessed at Harvard by the increased interest that students are beginning to take in national and international questions. The preparedness agitation, the International Polity Club movement, the excitement...
Americans are deeply concerned in the struggle being waged across the ocean. They see old civilizations crumble, ideals in which they trusted vanish. In the work of restoration this nation will have a great part. College students in particular are beginning to realize that the responsibility will rest upon their generation, and that the task of reconstruction must enlist the knowledge and experience of educated...
...teams will be run again this year. The class is intended primarily to give an opportunity for exercise and development to men who are not out for any one organized team. It therefore aims to give general physical training rather than proficiency in any particular branch of sport. Though there is no expense attached to membership in the class, the very best of coaching is afforded the members...
...general work of the team was slipshod, and though this was in part due to the condition of the ice, it was not wholly so. Frequently the puck would shoot out of a general scrimmage with no one following it and with no particular purpose. There was also a great deal of slashing stick-work, and though on the whole the men passed fairly well, a great many passes were wide or too hard or forward...
This is not derisive criticism of any one element in the class, it is a condemnation of the unworthy methods used by all the cliques who desired to see their particular candidates elected. Since the list of men nominated for the Senior officers can never be considered infallible, the democratic right of petition exists for the use of any group of men who feel that a man has been omitted who deserves to be nominated on account of his college record. When this right is used intelligently, there can be no possibility of hostile groups of politicians developing...