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...processes which lead to literary or scientific success, or can feel with him who wins it all the eager joy of victory. It is difficult to appreciate and generally impossible to grow enthusiastic over the competition in which the brain prevails. We believe, however, that even now the sober praise which Harvard men never deny to scholarly ability is far more significant than the lavish commendation which they so recklessly bestow on the favored athlete. The latter is an affair of the moment, called forth by an enthusiasm which passes away with its immediate cause; the former will last...
...existing system of awarding scholarships is not satisfactory. An effort will be made next year to inquire more diligently into the needs of applicants, and this reform is plainly right. Far more important reforms are, however, needed. The system, as it is established, is on the whole well executed; sober complaint is made not against the execution of the system but rather against the system itself...
...rules for athletics which went into effect on Monday will deprive our teams of some of their best men, but sober college opinion will realize, in spite of this, that they are for the best interest of the University. They will purify athletics without reducing them to a strictly undergraduate basis. Not only will they purify athletics but they will place restrictions on them which will keep them within bounds. It cannot be denied that there is an athletic craze today, a craze which quite outruns sober thought on the scholarly side of college life. Athletes themselves are too willing...
...Ireland's hatred. (b) Home Rule is desirable for Ireland's sake. (1) It would give greter opportunity for needful legislation. (2) An Irish legislature would be better informed on Irish needs, and more sympathetic in the treatment of them. (3) Law would be more respected. (4) Responsibility would sober the Irish...
...that it presents well and clearly, though at somewhat tedious length, a great though inevitable danger into which we have come through the tremendous growth of the University in late years, that danger being that as our numbers increase we gradually lose that flue "Harvard spirit" of quiet and sober gentlemanliness for which Harvard men have always been noted. "My Dryad" is a short poem by P. H. Savage. It is not especially good. A long and cleverly managed article is J. R. Oliver's study of Maurice Maetterlink, a young Belgian writer, The article is abundantly stocked with quotations...