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...share your desire to bring about a reform in intercollegiate athletics and differ only as to the method of attaining our common object. As I wrote you in my letter of Feb. 17th, we think the new rules should be uniform for all the sports; that they should be permanent, and not for a single year; and that they should not go into so immediate operation as to, debar students who are now at the university and eligible under existing conditions. We believe also that Harvard being a university, should be represented by university teams rather than by college teams...
...university standard, but rid it of its present objectionable features. However, with the undergraduate rule in the precarious position it now holds, it seems a questionable policy, for those who have of their own free will adopted it, to try to drag others down to their own level. We think that the athletic spirit at Yale must be too sportsmanlike to allow the baseball games to fall through because Yale has, by her own deliberate action, weakened her teams and their chances of winning. If this were not the case, Yale "grit" would soon become a by-word. However...
Manliness is a quality that every lad longs to possess; it is his aspiration to be manly. And as he gets into school, he there tries to exemplify his conception of the word. But unfortunately he often gets a wrong idea, and comes to think it manly to frequent the bar-room, or gambling places. It is an evil that is common to most men at certain stages of their lives, an evil for which society is responsible. A man's idea will conform not to what he ought to be, but to what he is allowed...
...also the pupils. He ought to know all the pupils so well that he could advise their parents whether or not, their children should be sent to higher schools. Furthermore, he should be in touch with all teachers and make it a special point to lead them to think for themselves and to study the books of the day that treat of their profession. The superintendent, on the other hand, is the final authority, or ought to be, in all matters of dispute from the scholars up to the principals. They should have control of granting teachers' certificates and should...
...complete attendance this week of the voluntary classes in Reading and Speaking is especially desirable. Men who think of joining any of these sections for the first time may consult me in Sever 29, at half-past two or at half-past three, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday afternoons. The hour from half-past two to half-past three Wednesday is reserved for the Law School...