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...correspondent this morning expresses the feeling of many undergraduates in his communication. The question of having an annual dinner for each of the four classes had been often discussed in former years, and it seemed to be a common opinion that freshman and sophomore dinners would detract from the junior dinner and that there would not then be a very enthusiastic support of any class dinner. If this is true it is to be deplored, for it shows how great has been the decay of class spirit here. If it is not true then it would be an excellent thing...
...student body. Harvard students of today are enthusiastic at bottom. Their affection for their Alma Mater is as strong as it ever was, but they are not so willing to show it as they were twenty years ago. It has to be forced out of them now, for they seem unwilling to give it the whole-heartedness they used to. Men now have to be urged to come out and try for the teams, and to go to the games and cheer their representatives in the athletic field...
Professor Goodwin then spoke of the Sophists. He said that they did not teach any immoral doctrines, as was generally believed. They seem to have been a set of worthy scholars who craved for higher knowledge. The Sophists were characterized by their opponent, Plato, as the mere reflection of public opinion. Protagoras taught that whatever a man's opinion teaches him is true to that man. The lecturer closed by showing how utterly absurd are the violent charges of immorality attached to this system of belief...
...does seem astonishing that in spite of all the expostulations on the part of the students in this University that have been made for several years past, no radical step has yet been taken by the authorities to better the condition of the College Yard during the winter and spring months. After a thaw like the present the Yard is little better than a marsh, and all the preparation that has been made for such a time has been the laying of a few narrow board walks along the unimportant paths. If it is indeed impracticable to have the Yard...
...work in the cage is progressing slowly. The sliding seems to be difficult to master, and there are still the elementary faults of awkward fielding and careless throwing which must be remedied. The squad as a whole lacks snap, and the men seem to be afraid of expending any more effort than is actually necessary...