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...Garcelon's class in general athletics, which starts today, is practically the only organized attempt in the University to gather together a squad of men for the sole purpose of showing them the true value of exercise for its own sake. That it fulfills its purpose is evinced by the fact that the membership of the class is three times as great as it was last year. Most of these men are Freshmen, and all are more or less inexperienced, for no man engaged in organized sport is allowed to join the class. The fact that so many men have...
...three Harvard magazines follow is that the practice which is given to young writers warrants the existence of as many papers as can support themselves. The other ideal, a worthier one in our opinion, is that any article of any kind is not worth publishing simply for the sake of giving practice and encouragement to writers. The production of one undergraduate magazine which should represent the combined efforts of all students ambitious to write, which should aim at something beyond the goal of bare self-support, and, most of all, whose various departments should offer something worth reading to every...
...members of the latter class. The under-graduate's work, because of his outside interests and narrower knowledge of the subject, naturally does not attain the standard set by the graduate, and the instructor is unwilling to check the progress of the more advanced students for the sake of the slower men. The result is that the undergraduate finds the work beyond him and can not in this case maintain as comparatively high a standard as in his other courses...
...plan, however, sets a standard that is authoritative and one that appeals to a man's good sense. For the sake of the present Freshmen themselves, it is to be hoped that there will be a very general acceptance of the new system...
...practice alike, is good fun. Although the paucity of men who are willing conscientiously to devote their time for the benefit of the class is deplorable indeed, still, it is some satisfaction to see that the non-athletic undergraduates do take an active interest in competitive athletics for the sake of the sport. Since the scrub series meets with such good success, perhaps benefit would be derived from more of these spontaneous athletic contests...