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...routine of classes. In short, hereafter, the club is to serve as an additional point of contact between the professors, graduate students, and the undergraduate who is just embarking on a career in the classics. The advantages to be gained from any workshop or technical laboratory of this sort have been proved too often to be open for dispute. To the ordinary man they are unknown, and of necessity must be; but to those who seek in college rather more than a piece of lettered sheepskin they offer opportunity for outside work and personal contact of almost inestimable value...
...Junior is only a Junior when he has ceased to yawn. The College office generally has aided him materially toward that end. He is sometimes heard to mutter "Hum" in a doubtful sort of way as if all within were not settled. A troubled brow and an occasional glance in the direction of a book-covered desk suggest a coming storm...
...Sunday, is an irksome compulsion; perhaps from a home where the parental regulation was equally stringent; or again his previous church affiliations may have been unsympathetic or distasteful. For all these reasons he welcomes the tolerance of Harvard, and interprets the freedom from necessary church attendance as a sort of compulsion to stay away. Strangely enough, this feeling does not always wear off with the passing of Freshman or even Sophomore year. Boastful Juniors have been known to take pride in the fact that they had never seen the inside of Appleton, just as their forefathers must sometimes have boasted...
...unaltered proves to be a mill-stone around the university's neck. The object for which it was given must be revived or forcibly kept alive just to use the money of the gift. The McKay Fund left to Harvard, while not by any means an extreme of this sort, is an illustration of the legal complications that often follow in the wake of any specific bequest...
...needs supplied by these agencies. Perhaps they lack the instinct for pleasure in play, perhaps they do not know how to go about getting into a game, or finding a partner at a convenient time. For them, Hemenway Gymnasium is an adequate reply. They the necessary equipment for any sort of excise may be supplied "free on request", and the assistant in charge, Mr. Fradd, presides as a sort of "genus loci" to advise and encourage all searchers after individual physical diversion...