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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Harvard anniversary celebration. With clear and concise logic he shows the folly of adapting a method of rejoicing over athletic victories to an occasion so sacred as the birth of our founder. We understand that some men may feel above such a childish display of animal spirits, but we scan the communication in vain to find an adequate alternative. True, the writer suggests that the Faculty should have planned academic ceremonies which would conform to the dignity of the anniversary, but this the Faculty refused to undertake. If they had, it would, indeed, have required a fertile imagination to devise...