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...science and the men of thought. Who will suggest a fair set-off in lines of railroad laid down or in buildings put up for the "unsubstantial" creations of a Beethoven or a Mozart, a Verdi, a Gounod or a Wagner? How many feet of lumber cut, sawed and split-how many tons of coal raised from the mine and delivered-equal in value the influence on men of poems like the "Psalnt of Life," of songs like the "Marsellaise" and the "Star Spangled Banner"? Do I seem to exaggerate the significance of the thinker and his work?" said...
...does not like to be hypercritical; but perhaps one may suggest that a little more care in editing this number might have removed several flaws in English,--a split infinitive, and awkwardly constructed sentences...
...University lacrosse team left yesterday for New York, where it will play the Stevens Institute of Technology this afternoon at 2 o'clock. The University players have split even in their games this season, while the Stevens team has dropped all of its games, the majority of them by one-sided scores...
...team which Coach Mitchell's players will meet at Franklin Field is not distinctly a nine of the first ranking, although it is, on the other hand, superior to the majority of teams with which the University has played early-season contests. It has, thus far in its schedule, split honors with Yale, and tied with the strong and fast Columbia team. But it has suffered defeat at the hands of the Annapolis Midshipmen whom the University beat, and at the hands of Villanova, a team which lost to Princeton in the latter college's first game of the season...
...chief rivals, Yale and Princeton. Roosevelt was second both times. Nor can this vote be taken as a final indication of what student Harvard will think of the Presidential candidates next fall. In 1912 Taft carried the spring straw vote, and Wilson was third; in October, after the split in the Republican party, those positions were reversed. The final observation that 1788 men voted, although ballot boxes were only in two places, is indicative of the fact that not all students are dead or indifferent to the most dramatic and important single feature of public life in the world...