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...boys were utterly unable to stand up against their opponents. Their defense was pitifully weak at the critical moments when the CRIMSON offensive swept down toward the goal, and the Lampoon bounced off the impregnable CRIMSON defense as from a stonewall. This first victory in hockey is still another proof of the well-known fact that in no branch of sport can the Lampoons hope to compete with the CRIMSON athletes...
...celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow h.'59, Smith Professor of the French and Spanish languages and literatures, and Professor of Belles Lettres, in the University from 1836 to 1854. Sanders Theatre was crowded to the utmost so that many were forced to stand, and many others could not gain admittance. Professor C. E. Norton '46, chairman of the assembly, opened the meeting by a short address, which is printed in full below. The other speakers of the evening were President Eliot '53 and Colonel T. W. Higginson '41. A poem, which is also...
...only means of bringing us back to the standard of half a century ago is for the youth of the land to return to the old simplicity in pleasure, and the old contentment without great riches. Take a vacation every year, let no business whatsoever stand in the way, for it is only by regularly breaking away from work that capacity for enjoying the fruit of work can be preserved
American scholarship will be judged, not by the quantity of routine work produced by routine workers, but by, the small amount of first class output of those who, in whatever branch stand in in the first rank. No industry in combination and in combination will ever take the place of this first-hand original work, this productive and creative work, whether in science, in art, in literature. The greatest special function of a college, as distinguished from its general function of producing good citizenship, should be so to shape conditions as to put a premium upon the development of productive...
...achieve results, instead of confining himself exclusively to disparagement of other men who achieve them, he must manage to come to some kind of working agreement with these fellows of his there are times of course when it may be the highest duty of a citizen to stand alone, or practically alone. But if this is a man's normal attitude if normally he is unable to work in combination with a considerable body of his fellows it is safe to set him down as unfit for useful service in a democracy. In popular government results worth having can only...