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Dean Randall then passes to condemnation of the too-prominent position which athletics hold in our colleges, and counsels that they should be speedily reduced from their high estate. As a disciplinarian he could have made more effective attack upon athletics by praising them. Don't they teach our students punctuality? No man is ever twice late in reporting for football practice. Don't they teach thoroughness? No athlete who neglects the work required of him can win the success which he covets. Hence few neglect it. On the athletic field students are given complete and thorough examination...
...University never exercise at all and many who do, do not do so in the right way. Hence all would gain in strength and health from the "setting up" exercises which are a part of military drill. From a moral point of view the drills would teach discipline and order, which are to no small degree lacking in the citizens of this country. Harvard has been accused by outsiders of thinking in the past and heeding little the affairs of the present. Let us show the country that we recognize the present need of a reserve force to protect...
...both men being commissioned offers in the U. S. Army, Lieutenant William Renwick, a graduate of the Law School, who presented the Benet-Mercier machine-gun to the State, and who has, in addition, given much of his time to the practical demonstration of this powerful offensive weapon, will teach the men the mechanical workings of the instrument...
...benefits that the social worker himself derives hardly need enumeration. That he will be broadened by his contact with fellow men in a different sphere of life, and that he will learn much more about social conditions than any course in Social Ethics could possibly teach him, is a certainly...
...Harvard is now open. What will it teach? For fifty years our American professors and students have been in ardent pursuit of German ideals of scholarship; they have tortured themselves to attain German thoroughness, Gruendlichkeit; they have taken all the arts and sciences and done them over in the likeness of a German image. We have profited by this, for it has checked our native love for the hasty and impermanent ways of the pioneer...