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...School is Dr. Oliver wendell Holmes, though he is no longer an active member of the faculty. The genial "autocrat" cannot stand entirely aloof from his first love, and almost every month he pays a visit to the doctor mill on the Back Bay. Some of the younger professors think that Dr. Holmes is pretty far behind the times-"an old fogy, you know" but the boys have no thought for them when the old doctor comes in sight, trying to steal unseen through some open space. Applause and shouting bring the doctor to a stop. The bright, strong face...
...your yesterday's editorial, you allude to the wire-pulling methods of the faculty. That phrase, I think, is the proper one with which to characterize their present action in regard to the petition from the executive officers of our different athletic associations, which is now before them. The faculty earnestly wish that this petition should not be made public. For, say they, we will lose all hopes of coercing Yale, if it should be made public. Is not Yale entitled to the knowledge of the true state of feeling at Harvard? How then shall we characterize the action...
...believe that the regulations were anything but a hoax. I cannot explain them now. How can they be true? What has called them forth? They seem to me utterly unreasonable. The students, of course, are placed in a position at once embarrassing and oppressive. But the faculty, I think, occupies the worst position. This action is at the least injudicious. I hope the students will make a decided protest...
...collecting such evidence as this, I think we can arrive at some idea of the attitude of graduate opinion on this subject. I have no doubt others can report conversations fully as interesting as this...
...have succeeded in gaining concessions from Harvard. We should like to ask, but without any desire to offend the tender sensibilities of our representative at that mournful conference, "what concessions were made to Harvard?" Of course, the last resolution was necessary to make the others of any effect. We think better of Yale, however, than to believe that she will be forced to adopt these measures by any such threat...