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...this record is only a beginning. It is too early in the season to crow over victories. The team has some stiff obstacles in the path of a victorious season. If they cannot be surmounted, basketball may go the way of many minor sports, and sink into insignificance. If, however, the team can continue to make good, the future of the sport will indeed be bright. The result should be a larger squad, more enthusiastic support, better facilities, and a broadening of interest in Harvard through Western and Southern trips...
...results of the referendum would indicate that he was right. A great change has taken place. It is already reported that Socialists such as Turati, Treves and Modigliani may sink their dogmatic scruples and enter the Cabinet to keep an eye on the working out of the agreement; and the fact that this change was brought about by violence sets an ominous precedent for the discontented of the future. Nevertheless, Italy has escaped practically unharmed from a situation which threatened a great deal of trouble, and the new industrial experiment is to be tried, apparently, with good faith...
There is in the University one sanctuary where busting efficiency and blazing lights have not penetrated. In the Union library there are good books, staunch old friends that have proved their worth before generations; there are comfortable chairs into which one may sink deep in luxury, thoughtless of decorum; here one can cram the briar full of fragrant Virginian, light it with freedom and lie back in blissful serenity and ease...
...provide a man in the University who will aid the Freshman in all times of need. If conscientiously carried out, this system will become the means of personal contact between the College, and its newest members, and will prevent the feeling that the are allowed by the University to sink or swim as they...
...sickness, for undergraduates not being there. This year must set a precedent to those following. If we do nothing in the way of welding the College into a sense of unity, the men who come here in later years will feel no obligations to the University, and Harvard will sink slowly into an overgrown day-school, where men come and go with no thought of anything but themselves. With this object of educating the lower classes into a realization of Harvard spirit, the baseball mass meeting was held. And it was a great success as far as it went...