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...truth of the matter is that we are intolerant. As individuals, as groups, and as a College, we are unwilling to appreciate, and perhaps even to understand, the opinions of others with whom we are out of sympathy. Blinded to our own faults, we pride ourselves that we are not as others--whom we variously describe as "wet" or "aesthetic" or with even harsher epithets. We are intolerant, and intolerance is the concomitant of conceit...
...most important point which Mr. Hollowell brings up is that graduate students are given to understand that they "do not quite belong". The only answer that can be returned to that statement is that the majority of them indicate quite plainly that they do not care to "belong". They come here and find a different system from that to which they have been accustomed; they rebel and find the results unsatisfactory. Many of them can not become reconciled to the lecture system and the taking of notes. Some feel that Harvard men are given the preference. Then there...
...Paine's "First Down, Kentucky" would have been even more perfect if he had only deferred the writing a month or two. Since the book's publication Centre has succeeded in beating Harvard and we understand that "Bo" MecMillin has become engaged...
...that it is surprising because everything tends to destroy whatever loyalty the men might have. When they go to some other institution, they nearly always support it whole-heartedly. In the case of Harvard, they are given to understand, both here and among alumni out over the country, that they "do not quite belong". To quote only the instance nearest to the point: when a student in one of the graduate schools applies for a ticket to the Yale game, he finds himself at the bottom of the list. If he is a candidate...
...trivial in itself, either--that it is "out on time", it contains something which concerns everyone: and explanation of the administration of the University. Why such an outline has not been thought of before it is hard to say. Certainly it makes it easier for the Harvard student to understand the mysterious workings of U-4, and see why and how some of the wheels go round. That contribution alone should justify the ways of the De to undergraduates...