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...thinks that a "right ideal" should be adopted at the beginning, and the new system should be as much contrasted with the old one as possible. "Instead of complexity, there should be simplicity; there should be one sole and simple 'event,' a University boat-race between representative crews of the only two colleges in America whose names have anything more than a local significance. There should be no Freshman race, no single-scull contest, no athletic sports, no base-ball match, no regatta promenade, no glee-club concert; 'side-shows' of every name and description should be absolutely prohibited...
...only worthy objection to the exercises around the tree is the dust and shouting raised by the rush of the lower classes, - the sole remaining sign at Harvard of the enmity which is proverbially connected with the name of Sophomores and Freshmen. Although the abolishing of hazing is not so universally considered an unmixed good among either alumni or undergraduates as the college papers have represented, still the fact that hazing and the kindred practice of rushing have become customs of the past would justify the Seniors, should they see fit, to forbid the rush of the Sophomores and Freshmen...
...opinion, and then asserts that the influence of the Nation is bad, because, to act, we must delude ourselves into believing that things are better than they really are. He asserts that it is better to hold wrong opinions than to have our opinions corrected; in other words, the sole object of life is ideal truth, but the only safe way for us to life is in falsehood and voluntary blindness...
...University crew to the position of captain of the crew marks a new departure in our boating affairs. The leaf which we are about to turn will, we trust, be brighter than the last one. For the new captain of the crew we can confidently promise that his sole idea will be the conscientious discharge of the responsible duties committed to his charge. He believes in having only those men in the boat who are (to use his own words) "heart and soul in the crew," and he will endeavor to find five men in the University who have, beside...
...well-known firm of W. J. McPherson & Co., and is the first purely mosaic stained glass window ever erected in this country. By mosaic stained-glass window we mean one wherein all the effect of light and shade is obtained, not by the use of paint, but by the sole use of various colored glasses so disposed that the effect is similar to most elegant mosaic work...