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...states to their local institutions. And yet Harvard has maintained her reputation as a centre of learning so effectively that last year she attracted an increased number of students in the Central, Western and Southern sections of the country. This year, despite even the financial depression which is so serious a check to higher education, there is no decrease, but rather a strong increase. A moment's thought on the conditions under which this increase has been made reveals what a great tribute it is to the strength of Harvard...
...apparent intention to violate openly the rule which prohibits one senior from selling or in any way bartering his tickets to another senior, or to any one but the Class Day Committee, deserves serious consideration. In adopting this regulation we have made no arbitrary decision, but have acted entirely on the experience and advice of other committees. It is absolutely essential that to insure the proper distribution of tickets the committee must hold rigidly to this rule and discountenance any violation of it either in spirit or in letter. Consequently every senior who purchases a ticket from the Class...
...adopt as its foremost purpose, not simply the regulation of more or less unwilling youth in the last years of their schooling, but the nurture, discipline, and inspiration of men destined to devote their whole future to scholarship, science, philosophy, criticism, or art, and of students laying serious foundations of lifelong culture,- the leaders in the coming generation in the search for new knowledge, the establishment of new standards, and the creation of new intellectual forms...
...thanksgiving differing from those of sorrow only in the syllables used. In time of battle the squaws think that their chants have some telepathic power and that the braves hear them and become more courageous. They have no songs which are sung for amusement alone. They are all serious ones which are sung at their ceremonies, when divine aid is desired or when they are thankful for something. The Indians never have two verses set to one tune. Each song has some particular significance to them and they could not understand two different ideas being sung to the same music...
...element is retained, we think that the series are doomed ot run themselves out in a short time. The farce kills the sport; it lowers the standard of play and lowers also the position of the games in the eyes of college men so that the spur for hard, serious practice is blunted. The downward tendency grows constantly stronger, It means that in a short time the series will have no excuse for existence...