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...cheering ought to be a fierce spur and stimulus to the men who are competing for the College and not a safety-valve for a critical spectator. If there is fierceness and determination in the cheering there will be fierceness and determination in the playing. Every undergraduate should feel it his duty to encourage and cheer on the team, just as he believes that the team should work for the University. Every man should come to the practice and cheer the team in the daily work, and, in the games, should cheer with the same persistence, fierceness and dash that...
...enlarging its range and improving its methods, and upon their success in a great and difficult undertaking depended the future rank of Harvard as a seat of learning. At this juncture Mr. Winsor took charge of the Library with the settled purpose of making it a help and a spur to instructors and to students in their daily work, and a source of vital influence in University life. The extension of the Library in 1876 and the accession of some important funds strengthened his hands at the outset. His rules of administration, his plans for the remodeling of Gore Hall...
...become much more appreciated within the last few years, of giving more marked recognition to good scholarly work irrespective of pecuniary need. In other words, it is felt that the student in comfortable or well-to-do circumstances has been slighted, and he it is that needs the spur of competition,- if anything, more than the poorer man, whose scant means are a protection against the distractions to which others are liable. Now comes the Ricardo Fellowship to supplement the work which the prize funds have hitherto done alone, and it is to be hoped that the experiment will tend...
...only a few minutes, in weighing carefully the various plans suggested, and in trying to come to some definite conclusion on the whole matter. No one, unless his judicial faculties are abnormally developed, can make a reasoned decision concerning the best plan of Tree exercises on the spur of the moment in a class meeting. In a meeting of four hundred men there can not be much satisfactory discussion and little more than the registering of opinion by a vote is possible...
When, therefore, the second meeting came around we had no definite plan to offer, and, naturally, could not get sanction to any reforms offered on the spur of the moment. as we had no systematic connection between them. Then we drew up a plan, showing very carefully how the changes would each remedy some evil of previous years; this was promptly acknowledged good by the Corporation Committee. A summary of this plan was published in Monday's CRIMSON. I personally feel that this plan would be a success, although it would depend wholly on the way the men would...