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Actual work on the excavations for the new Princeton Stadium will begin on Monday if the weather is suitable. The Pennsylvania Railroad will run a spur track into the field, where the structure is to be erected, greatly facilitating the work. Mr. J. G. Bent, who was in charge of the construction of the Harvard Stadium, will also superintend the work at Princeton...
...Jackson '14, hurdler on the University track team, was released from the Boston City Hospital Monday, where he has undergone an operation to remove a spur of his thigh bone, which was slightly splintered by a fall. Dr. Nichols has pronounced the operation successful, and does not expect it to impede his hurdling this spring...
...indications which we see are true, hints taken from perusals of our exchanges and from conversations with "foreign" visitors, there is a broad movement on foot among our colleges to spur men to higher scholarship. We believe that the greatest effect on the scholarship standard will be secured only when the prod is applied long before the men reach college, but we believe as firmly that a good deal can be done after they get there. If the Senior advisers, realizing as almost every Senior does that he is here to study, would seriously impress that idea upon their wards...
...other fields he has been no less prominent. It is hard to conceive of Harvard without him, but we can take comfort in the knowledge that his influence will remain after him, and that the memory of his deeds will spur his followers on to even greater endeavors. To him--as preceptor, administrator, citizen, and friend--the full love, gratitude and admiration of the university is given. May the years to come to attended with the success and happiness which have been his lot in the past half-century...
...sympathy from graduates. This item is the wholesale and unfriendly criticism of the Harvard coaches, appearing in newspapers the day after the game, and written as a rule by old players whose right to criticise history does not entirely justify. Doubtless only a deep interest in our team could spur industry into writing so many columns. But at best, comments to appear on Sunday morning must obviously be written under the stress of a defeat on Saturday. Ill-considered, destructive criticism in public prints, besides shocking our sense of loyalty due men who have done their best...