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...thing notable is that poetry is at a discount, doubtless because the editors who offer the prize, wish to defend themselves, knowing too well that the "wild eyed" poets need little incentive to write. Ever since the world began, man has been inclined to force his thoughts into poetry rather than write them easily in prose. The discount on poetry, there-fore, is very probably due to over-supply. But over-supply, as all students of Political Economy know, is the result of misguided, or misplaced production. This applies to poetry as well as to spades...
...often not written at all. Then, too, in time the poorer motive of money may lead to that higher and truer motive whereby men are prompted to write from very pleasure, and from their actually having something to write about. Here at Harvard, literary activity is the exception rather than the rule. Still it is true that in this respect, the present year goes far ahead of many previous years, Let us hope that next year will outstrip this. No persons would welcome greater literary ability in the college at large more than the at present over-worked editors...
...students that college is Harvard. The enormous increase of courses presented to the regular students over those presented in former years, or those at present presented at other colleges leaves no loop-hole for excuse as to individual tastes and talents which might be better fostered by a special rather than by a regular collegiate course. While special study at a large university will always offer a high premium to lassitude and constitutional langour it can but in few instances be pursued at Harvard to greater advantage than the regular course. The curriculum which is now offered to the regular...
...editorial advising the boat club to revive the class races in the fall, it spoke as if, because the faculty have prohibited inter-collegiate foot-ball, that sport was to die out from among our college games and be no longer worthy of consideration. It seems to us rather, as if next year is to be an important crisis in the history of foot-ball at Harvard. A time when it will need all the aid, instead of the discouragement, which it can get. If foot-ball can live through such a year as next year promises...
...turns the attention of the college to the work of the crews. We are unfortunately so situated that the trouble attendant upon getting to the boat-house is so great that the majority of the students prefer to stroll over to Holmes to watch the work of the nine rather than to go down to the river to note what is being done in the boats. That the college may have some idea of the state of the crews we purpose to print during the coming week articles on the work of the 'varsity and freshman boats...