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...Corporation and Athletic Committee. It advocates immediate action, on the grounds that if the other colleges will not stand by Harvard, it is right for Harvard to support her principles alone. This, says the communication, has been done successfully in educational matters. It proposes a practical test of the proposition, claiming that "if the experiment leaves us worse off than we are, there will be profit in that demonstration," and, further, asserts that thus far "the recommendation has been but feebly challenged on its intrinsic merits...
...Athletic Committee should consider well before it has "done with academic discussions" and lots "the thing be put to a practical test...
...modified rules of football have now had their second season's test, and the result has been tremendously gratifying to all their adherents. Those who still maintain that the former game was the better find very little support, either from the players or the onlookers, and the criticism that is heard is so slight that it is distinctly negligible. It is quite remarkable that such is the case, and still more so that the Rules Committee should have been able to make such sweeping changes in the game with so few mistakes, and these only minor in effect. Naturally every...
...generally contemplated when college men are urged to go into politics, but just as sure as watching the quarterback or left end will lose the football championship, so watching the mayor or comptroller or alderman will continue the evils of American municipal government. Just as in football, too, the test of the player is what he is able to do with the ball and with his team, so the test of the college man in politics is the extent to which he can advance the interests of his constituents; their interests, like the ball, are objective, countable, visible, watchable things...
...William H. Van Allen, rector of the Church of the Advent, Boston, will give this evening the second of his series of St. Paul's Society conferences on "The Faith Once For All Delivered." He will speak on "The Test of the Faith" in the Noble Room of Phillips Brooks House at 7.15 o'clock, and the address will be preceded by evening prayer at 7 o'clock...