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...students on the matter. We shall therefore be glad to receive communications from any member of the University on this subject, and will see that they reach the committee in charge. Writers of communications should give the question their serious consideration and not dash off their ideas on the spur of the moment without thought, for such contributions will not be of much value. Several positions have already been suggested by the graduates as good sites for the club, but they have not proved thoroughly satisfactory, and nothing definite will be decided until a more thorough canvass of opinion...
...that the CRIMSON is in the field alone, the spur of competition is of course withdrawn. The aim of the paper, however, will always be, as it has been, to make use of everything which has been proved good by past experience and to take every possible step to increase the usefulness of the paper in the University...
...reality the only time when cheering can be of use. It is the time when every player is called to fight with an indescribable "gone" feeling. Any one who knows anything of human nature, let alone athletics, knows that it is at this moment that whip and spur are needed. A stirring cheer may change the result of the game. We honestly believe that half-hearted support of athletic teams on the field may do quite as much as defeats toward giving the Harvard man the reputation of being a quitter...
...trying to say. It was these shy allurements and provocations of Omar Khayyam's Persian which led Fitzgerald to many a peerless phrase and made an original poet of him in the very act of translating. I cite this instance merely by way of hint that as a spur to the mind, as an open-sesame to the treasures of our native vocabulary, the study of a living language (for literary, not linguistic, ends) may serve as well as that of any which we rather inaptly call dead...
...farce element is retained, we think that the series are doomed ot run themselves out in a short time. The farce kills the sport; it lowers the standard of play and lowers also the position of the games in the eyes of college men so that the spur for hard, serious practice is blunted. The downward tendency grows constantly stronger, It means that in a short time the series will have no excuse for existence...