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This is all highly gratifying. We had feared out this way that the eastern fountains of learning were drying up. We had harbored the suspicion that youth in the east was, if not dead, at least pale and specter-thin. We saw decadence where once had been virility. We remembered recent intersectional games and we thought that down east they had too much blue blood and not enough...
...worry? At least that's the way juniors, sophomores, and freshmen think seniors ought to feel, for with them matters are quite otherwise. With these unfortunates what's done is not done. And worse still, the ghost of what's undone rattles its bones and joins forces with the specter of what's yet to do. It Robert Browning had been the true optimist and friend of mankind he is reputed to be, he would have written...
...best of all answers to the specter of "over-emphasis on athletics" which haunts our American colleges, is the continuance of such work as the Dramatic Club has well begun at the University...
...faculty, must do their utmost to keep in touch with the men. Only in this way can the number of misfits, always too numerous, be lessens Only by combining the small group and the wider field can be the ideal of college be difined and the ever present specter of limitation laid...
Everybody knows the recurring bad dream in which he is straining every muscle to cross a railroad track ahead of an oncoming locomotive and cannot quite make it. Usually he wakes up shuddering just before the train hits. Very much the same situation confronts the Senior now, with the specter of Divisionals looming up closer and closer before him,-only without the saving grace of waking up and finding it all a dream. Preparation to meet the Divisionals is as hopelessly futile for the average Senior as attempts to get away from the engine in the nightmare. For all that...