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...graduates in touch with the college, it is probably also true that no one has ever known just how much of a factor they were. It is not certain, indeed, that anyone knows even now, but some statistics gathered by Harvard would seem to throw significant light on the problem. The university has made a careful compilation of the number of men who voted in the last postal ballot for overseers and gone to some trouble to determine exactly what percentage of graduates in each state had enough interest in their college to return their ballots. In general, two conclusions...
Apparently Roper's problem lies in the middle of the line, where the gaps caused by the departure of Captain McGraw, Bigler, Parisette, Morgan and Baker, seem very difficult to fill satisfactorily. Thomas, who substituted for Captain Callahan at center in both the "big games" of last fall, has been moved into a guard position flanking Callahan, who is thus left without a first-rate substitute. Coach George Funk '15, in charge of the centers, has been forced to requisition backfield members and train them to the snapper-back position. As yet, Opie, whose running was chiefly responsible...
...undergraduates know this to be a fact through experience; probably the administrative force itself would hesitate before denying it. The sub-Freshman fights his way into college between opposing statements on his standing. The Senior gives up the ghost when he finds that no one can solve his concentration problem...
...student, however, whose family can afford to send him through college at the minimum cost by the strictest economy, if not by privation on their own part, has a problem to solve which the ordinary scholarship does not help. He would like to relieve his family of much of the burden that he is causing them. Yet he does not feel justified in applying for the usual scholarship because he may be depriving some one less fortunate than he of the privilege of coming to college...
...reason for the insignificance of the scholar in undergraduate affairs during such a large part of the year is a problem which thwarts the insight of any ambitious Oedipus who hopes to settle the question, but certain conclusions may be drawn safely, as in most cases the blame can best be laid to both parties--the average undergraduate, and the scholar...