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...evils attendant on the prohibition of pools are so marked that the thoughtful men of our country are unanimous for a repeal. Before our opponents can plead for an extension of control, they must prove the beneficence of the present control...
...itself until it is too late for him to profit from them. We are inclined here at college to try to do too much, to have a hand in that thing or this thing and in consequence to do many things indifferently instead of a few things successfully. We plead no time to stop to take the voluntary advantages offered us by the University; and yet it is certain that at no time after college life do we find these advantages under as good circumstances. These varied lectures and conferences offered us now will never be offered so conveniently when...
...college life, in bettering health and morals, and, by intercollegiate contests, bringing colleges into a desirable closer contact with each other. But the recognition that college athletics predominate too much is not confined only to outsiders; we ourselves can see the faults of their predominance. Yet we would not plead for less interest in athletics among students but for a corresponding interest in scholarly attainments; not that the "glorification of athletics," if it indeed be too great, should be lessened, but that the "glorification of letters" should be made equal...
...that we are put to such great inconveniencies, - inconveniencies which we have born now for not a few years. The addition of new lockers this fall has given a chance for increased attendance at the gymnasium, but we still lack a sufficient number of baths. We must continue to plead for baths and perhaps we shall finally get them...
...average Harvard undergraduate if asked to describe the Annex would probably plead ignorance, and yet the Annex is but a block...