Word: polo
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Dates: during 1910-1910
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This time at least the Advocate is not careering through space remote from College life; it is a local paper dealing with Harvard questions old and new. The editors pay their respects to the Polo Club, the lecture system, the assistants in English A, and the buyers of printed notes. Two of the five prose articles attack in the good old way weak spots in our methods of instruction, and one shows how alcohol gradually drowns college ideals. Of the two poems, the longer may be called academic...
...present discussion of the position and influence of the Polo Club it is most unfortunate that a complete statement of all the facts is practically impossible. In a discussion of such a subject it is far easier to make assertions than to prove their truth; and consequently it is most desirable that such facts as are undisputed should at the outset be definitely set forth. In the first place, it is certain that the Polo Club has for a number of years sustained among students, officers, and graduates of the University a reputation for drunkenness stronger than that attached...
...Freshmen themselves, in view of the size of the present classes, should form groups on the basis of congeniality and community of interests. But is it not necessary that a collection of Freshmen for either of these purposes should bear the reputation, whether deserved or not, that the Polo Club now has. The life of that organization can be terminated easily and quietly by its past members; and if they do not meet the facts, either by public proof that the Polo Club's reputation is undeserved, or by doing away with the grounds for complaint, they are responsible...
...Polo Club has had a career not merely of drinking, about the desirability of which men differ, but of prolonged drunkenness, which all sane men agree is bad. This time the drunkenness was on a public occasion, not in Cambridge, but in Boston, under the eyes of the newspaper reporters, who are only too eager to seize and spread abroad scandal about any large college. The Polo Club has wronged the Freshman class and the College in the public eye. Why the College and the class should be the only ones to suffer, and the Polo Club, as such...
...proper punishment is not the expulsion of the individuals, for the Polo Club will be drunk again next year, and much the same thing may happen. The evil cannot be remedied by a reform of the club, because, being a purely Freshman organization, there is no steadying influence to keep it straight. The only thing that can be done which is worth doing at all is the complete extinction of this sole surviving Freshman club. What is the best method for doing so is not here to be discussed...