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...game with the United States Military Academy at West Point this afternoon will furnish the first thorough test of the strength of this year's University eleven. Seven members of last year's West Point team, which held Harvard down to a score of 5 to 0, are again playing, while only three regular players of last year's University eleven will line up in today's game...
...which this realization of power comes the possibility of pain. On the threshold of life, when we are full of enthusiastic ambitions and expectations, the world challenges us. It is then that we must show our character, manifest our courage and put our manhood to the test. We experience the acceptance of personal responsibility...
...schedule for the season has been prepared with the greatest care. Two of the early games have been omitted as unfeasible, while the Dartmouth game, which was thought to be too severe a test for the men to undergo a week before the Yale game, has been arranged for a week earlier than last year. It was hoped to give Amherst Dartmouth's former date but no agreement could be reached and Holy Cross was finally substituted in its place. This has made it necessary to fix the date of the Pennsylvania game also one week earlier, but this step...
...rattle an opposing pitcher or to drown out the signals of an opposing quarterback. These first three uses of cheering are perfectly proper, but when cheering is used for no other purpose than to disconcert an opposing team, the game, whatever it may be, ceases to be a test of skill of the two teams, and becomes a general contest, in which cheering plays much too important a part. While Harvard cheers are not used to disconcert other teams, it is hard to see sometimes how they could help but disconcert our own team, for no welcome falls flatter than...
...collective interests of the classes or sections to which they belong, and will be excused during their last year in College from examinations in courses belonging to their subject or related subjects, in case the Division or Department under which they are working has provided some other public test than those examinations as the ground for its recommendation...