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...unobtrusive silence, and that their achievement will not attract any notable share of public attention, and that base-ball and boat racing will be studied with a fervor which cannot but trumpet the accomplishments of their classic followers to the notice and admiration of an expectant world. Local pride leans more kindly toward the victories of brawn than towards those of mind, and a college year is ever made more memorable by its athletic than by its intellectual victories. In the meanwhile, there are earnest and conscientious students who value college for the mental as well as the muscular training...
...other to the body, Harvard intellectual and Harvard athletic. But for the time at least Harvard athletic has more "fame" than Harvard intellectual; the athletes seem to be "bigger" men than the scholars, who very generally receive the hardly complimentary title of "grinds." It is truly said, "local pride leans more kindly toward the victories of brawn than towards those of mind;" but it is a mistake to suppose that Harvard men have no pride in intellectual attainments. The outside world seems to think that Harvard men are afflicted at heart with an indifference about all that is serious...
...said of this class, for there is only a matter of choice between street-sweeping and waiting on hotel tables. Still, on the other hand there is a great swarm of men imbued with false ideas of their own powers, driven on by vanity, and often by parental pride, who come to the universities expecting an easy living and final renown in some one of the professions...
...athletic organizations. This in itself, seems decidedly out of place, but when these pictures and the cheap frames around them are stamped with certain brands of cigars, and are thus made into advertisements, it seems as though the practice ought to be stopped. The student who feels a just pride in the success of the athletic associations cannot value the various photographs of such associations as highly as he ought, when he knows that they are scattered abroad in shop windows. To render the possession of these photographs the peculiar right of the students and their friends, a copyright should...
While the Lampoon is indulging in its glowing delineations of the all powerful conference committee, and while we feel a just pride in the work of the committee, the conference committee of one of our nearest neighbors is doing its best to discuss "some points of French grammar" and to pass motions for adjournment. The conference committee of Williams is exhibiting a marvelous propensity for wasting time, and each meeting of the committee is a repition of the futile efforts of the last to accomplish something. It is simply apalling to consider the amount of learned thought which is displayed...