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...light of these principles most of the sports pursued here are not only unobjectionable but positively serviceable. In the highly competive sports which give rise to exciting intercollegiate contests, namely, boat-racing, baseball and football, some evils of a serious nature have in recent years been developed. In the first place, the time devoted to these sports by the principal teams and crews is excessive. No sport which requires of the players more than two hours a day during term time is fit for college uses. The large sums of gate money are often wastefully and ineffectively spent. To football...
...kind do, from some careless remark, or was built by the newspapers into an elaborate story from the simple fact that about a month ago there was one case of scarlet fever in college. We have it on authority that there is not a single case of serious illness in Harvard today, nothing beyond the number of colds which must naturally be expected among so many persons. As some of these letters mentioned above have been from parents who are more or less exercised about the state of affairs in Cambridge, it will be well for the students in their...
George Richard Minot '71, died Wednesday morning at his residence, 415 Commonwealth avenue. About six weeks ago he was attacked by la grippe, and, when apparently nearly recovered, suddenly relapsed and died after only two days serious illness...
...University we are constantly called upon to choose between pleasure and duty, and even in our work we must always be choosing what sort of things we shall do. Here are many things set before us and most of them good things. Shall we now choose the serious and lasting or shall we give ourselves up to idleness and enjoyment? The college must always be judged by the spirit of the students. The outside world will not value Harvard according to the number of men it graduates or even by the number and quality of the professors, but always...
...this we can only say that if it is true, things have come to a sad pass. Ten dollars is not too much to pay for a football contest, and it is ridiculous to suppose that people will be unwilling to pay twenty-five cents for the more serious contest in argument. In the choice of judges excellent wisdom has been shown and the character of the men chosen is a high tribute to the cause of intercollegiate contests of this type. The speakers on both sides are working very hard and the debate promises to be exceedingly close...