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Yale, as must be perfectly evident to everyone in the Freshman class, is this year making a supreme effort to win the class as well as the university race, a fact which should only be an added inspiration to beat them. Men must not think that inexperience is a drawback. It is especially urged that such men, if of a reasonable size come out. They can very often be developed into better oars than the man who has learned to row before, for the latter may not be able to master Wray's stroke after learning something far different...
...most of the other teams have, it is no wonder that a majority of the games are lost, some of them to colleges half the size of Harvard. The under-graduates must not forget that in many places basketball ranks as one of the major sports, and our opponents think that the game is on the same footing here as it is with them. Victories by such colleges are celebrated with bonfires and general rejoicing, and are almost as much appreciated as triumphs in what Harvard considers the major sports...
...such men could be made to realize what the vesper services are really like, we think enough of them to believe that they would attend with moderate regularity. For on every Thursday afternoon during the winter there is an opportunity to hear a very good choir, trained by a skilled leader, render a uniformly excellent program of spiritual music. The men who conduct, the services are always well worth hearing, and the time of day cannot be regarded with the aversion which is bestowed on the hour of morning prayers. Afternoons spent in this way will be remembered with pleasure...
...lives of these men, we see splendid devotion to the good of others and a total disregard of themselves. In the words of Charles Lowell, "The one thing we must not do is to think of ourselves...
...make a wise choice of a career, that choice is often made with a superficial knowledge of the nature, inducements and difficulties of the different professions. It is also based on the belief that the occupations known as professions are all equally worthy, and that even those men who think they have a clear predilection for a particular profession make a great mistake if they do not see what the others have to offer. In the choice of lecturers the Governing Board hopes to secure men of distinction in every subject--taking sometimes men who are far advanced in successful...