Word: things
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...year. Accordingly it has adopted the systems of faculty and senior advisers. The effect of these systems, however, can only be superficial. A student in apt to discount the advice of an instructor because he is a representative of the faculty. Moreover, it is a very difficult thing for a faculty adviser to help a student about whom he has known nothing until a study card is presented for his signature...
Oliver Herford, as might be expected, leads the field against his less experienced fellow contributors. However his is far from the only good piece written, witness the "Diary of Unstable Gentleman's an excellent thing in the way of humorous prose...
...Yale has a great deal of potential 'punch.' The yards gained by Yale in the second and fourth quarters of the Princeton game show that Yale has great power, and power that can and will be developed. Perhaps the Yale team didn't have finish but that is a thing that can be put on during this week. Then again, Yale will have Dickens and Aldrich back in the game Saturday, and with them in the line-up the Eli team will be a far more difficult proposition to face...
Harvard supporters are at a serious disadvantage this year because the team must leave early for New Haven. This allows of only one mass meeting, which comes this evening, whereas Yale is counting on three. Already the banner--"Beat Harvard"--is seen about New Haven. One thing is certain: with Harvard enthusiasm confined to a single mass-meeting, no sign with "noise" thereon will be needed at the Union. It will be the biggest football meeting eyer held here, because men of the University realize the seriousness of that banner--"Beat Harvard." It will be such a meeting that...
Overconfidence never yet won a victory, and it has lost more than one. Harvard men are going to point to comparative scores and decide next Saturday's game before the team reaches New Haven, unless they refuse to become over-confident. Of one thing they may be sure: Yale at New Haven is going to present a far different team from Yale at Princeton. Comparative scores do not admit the all-important element of psychology, especially the influence of playing on the home field. Never was the old lesson truer than now--forget comparative scores, don't be overconfident...