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...Pennsylvania and Cornell in the East, the athletic season is not considered a success unless a winning track team is developed. Certainly there ought to be greater interest in track here, for Harvard has excellent facilities and able coaches, besides having the fastest cinder track in America. With such splendid opportunities, every normal undergraduate, who is not suited, either by his physique or by his adaptability, for another major sport, should not be backward about making use of the two legs with which he is endowed...
...service, and I strongly support any advance in that direction. I believe that every boy should be given training during his nineteenth year. This compulsory service would not last more than one year, and therefore would not be long enough to have a militaristic influence over our youth. The splendid record of the 26th Division has shown that one year of well applied training is sufficient to make a good soldier out of the average man. The training would be entirely under the control of the government, and would normally come between the last year of preparatory school...
...there be any doubt that the literary situation at Harvard, as regards undergraduate effort, is badly in need of re-vivification? For several years the Advocate has consistently failed to live up to its splendid traditions and unequalled opportunities. The shades of Aiken, Van Wyck Brooks, Sheldon, Biggers, Hagedorn, Ficke, and others, have hovered in vain. At their best we have had only dilettantism; at their worst puerility; and throughout this period of decadence a continual subservience to the vapid social and political aims of the editors. And by some irony of Fate this paper has lived when the Monthly...
...have splendid opportunities, through the Harvard professors and students, to learn the available lesson--to make our life's achievements larger. We must open mindedly study to appreciate what is good in the customs and ideas of the American people. We are taught how to talk, how to write from left to right, and how to be in close touch with all phases of actual American life. The spirit of higher education, which enables us to see the social and moral activities of Harvard, finds response in our hearts. It shows us a type of education, different from that...
...care of itself alone, when the alert and courageous French nation was all but strangled, when Russia with a hundred and sixty million people breaks into fragments, what guarantee has the United States of America that it will be free to take care of itself? Our soldiers made a splendid fight, and rendered the world a great service; but how long would it have taken the United States to break the German lines and blockade the German and Austrian and Turkish coasts solely with our own army and navy...