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...that they do anything dishonorable by occasionally deceiving the office as to their whereabouts. If they did so as a regular thing, their consciences would be troubled, but for just once or twice when a cut would not appear well in their record, - why of course no one could think of a breach of honor...
With the renewal of activity in baseball and track athletics, Harvard men must think with great regret of the proposed abandonment of Holmes Field in the coming year. The field has about it all the charm of intimate association with the University, past and present. Its nearness to the Yard, its position in the midst of well known University buildings, and the tradition of athletic contests which for so many years have been held on it, serve to identify it very closely with the University. Harvard's victories in baseball and in track athletics have been won on Holmes Field...
...private, during the past three years, it is because I have tried very hard to do my duty by them; and should it be made evident that they prefer lectures open to the public I would gladly act upon their preference. But a miscellaneous audience would, I think, take from the freedom and friendliness which are the very life of the spoken (as distinguished from the written) word...
...position of the Yale crews recently editorially expressed, that the country at large - as represented by the daily press - seems to think that Yale undergraduates are interested in nothing but athletics - an erroneous idea for which newspaper correspondents and the ordinary speeches at alumni meetings, are largely to blame, receives many indorsements, the New York Tribune laying special emphasis on these sentiments. The steady improvement in Yale's scholastic atmosphere is much more than keeping pace with her athletic prestige - and the fact is realized here, if not elsewhere. Yale may not be successful in the next few debates...
...courteous, manly expression of conviction, and how exception can be taken to the latter, I cannot see. In the present instance the Faculty have acted contrary to what undergraduates with practical unanimity believe to be the good of our University. Why should we not say what we think, instead of remaining in a silence that, before the outside world, and especially in the eyes of our own graduates, gives the lie to all that we have professed in the past, of love for the game of football and loyalty to the athletic interests of Harvard? I mention the graduates because...