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...similar ways. Y. M. C. A.'s and boys' clubs want athletes to speak to them; churches and Sunday schools want men to speak on travel, to tell stories, and to read selections. The chances of this sort offer a golden opportunity to College men to learn to stand squarely before an audience and say what they want to say. They are called upon to instruct and amuse, and are often forced to speak extemporaneously. The opportunity is great for a good work to be done in a short time by men up to whom the boys of the slums...
...told the men to avoid being what are sometimes called knotiess threads, men who pass through College but leave no mark and do no service. There are many of these in each class, the chief trouble being that they have no definite objective in their College lives. One must stand back from one's ideal to get a proper perspective of it. Then, seeing clearly what it is that one wants, one has the first safeguard against being a knotless thread. It is difficult to select one object out of the many offered; but one worthy should be chosen...
...years ago Major Higginson dedicated the Union as "a house open to all Harvard men without restriction and in which they all stand equal." To belong to the Union is one of the opportunities that comes with membership in the University. To those who are here for the first time this year, the following outline of the Union's place in College life is particularly addressed...
...while due credit must be given to the men who work at their different and widely varied activities, it must be admitted that there are certain men who do stand aloof from the opportunities which Harvard offers. Such men are apt to be not only indifferent, but intolerant. The College is so large that it is impossible that there should not be a great number of men who are content to criticize the activities of others and to derive benefit from them without making any effort to do their share. It is against these men that the charge of Harvard...
...should make first group in Sophomore year as a result of his first year work and then decide that he would devote his best work to some outside activity. It would probably follow that his College work during this year would suffer, and in Junior year he would not stand sufficiently high to be eligible. It has been objected that the ability to secure an A in a course open to Freshmen is no real proof of scholastic ability. It might be answered that while the work of first year courses is, in the main, introductory, the number...