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...last game between the Seniors and Juniors there were scarcely fifty spectators present, and at no game has there been much over a hundred. Doubtless this is in large part due to the fact that Soldiers Field is a harder place to get to than was Holmes, but it seems as if men should be willing to walk a quarter of a mile or so to see their class play a baseball game for the championship. If more interest is not shown the class games will be given up in a year or so for good. Today the final game...
...charitable societies public and private fail to reach this lowest stratum.- (1) They are regulative rather than preventive.- (x) They relieve suffering rather than remove the causes.- (b) The soldier alone is willing to tackle the evil in the places of its origin.- (c) The Army methods alone seem able to stir up the most hardened to better lives.- (1) Such people can be roused only by strong appeals to their emotions, such as (x) stirring music; (y) personal pressure; (z) enthusiastic meetings...
This afternoon, at Providence, Harvard plays Brown for the second time this year. The first game, at Cambridge, was won by Brown 9 to 7, principally on errors by the Harvard shortstop. Today's game should be close, as the two teams seem very evenly matched. The batting orders will...
...Yale men, on the other hand, did not seem to have divided up their ground definitely. They also failed to remove benefiting but minor considerations. For this reason it was difficult to grasp their main argument...
...been their prevailing regard for gentlemanly conduct,- their almost universal courtesy. We have been charged with snobbishness and indifference, but even our enemies have conceded to us a general respect for outward decorum, and abhorrence of boyish and "Kiddish" conduct. During the present year many things have happened which seem to show that we are in danger of losing our former high reputation. Such acts as the painting of the Fogg Museum, and the explosions at the lecture last Wednesday evening, would have seemed incredible at Harvard two or three years...