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...finds a ready application in almost every branch of the curriculum. At Harvard, where the lecture system is a favorite with the faculty, it is especially important to realize that it can be overdone when there is a failure to recognize the value of discussion in bringing out the utmost in a subject...
...past is forgotten. Each man will strive his utmost to bear the Crimson to the front. If hard work and team play alone availed, victory were already ours. Win or lose, Harvard may well be proud of the tireless efforts of its representatives to raise her name high in the field of winter track...
...good deal of the recent talk about "recognizing scholarship" is it seems to me (with the utmost respect for its origin), characterized by earnest benevolence rather than by perfectly clear thinking. What keeps it from being more impressive is its essential irrelevance. The champions of the idea are palpably sincere, not to say solemn: their intentions are the best in the world, but their psychology is loss to be commended. They do not, that is, admit into their thinking the one fact which is most germane to the subject--namely, that scholarship is in its very nature a pursuit which...
...this new venture. Our acquaintance has been chiefly limited to the field of rival sport; it is with all the more interest then, that we await Princeton's debut on the Boston stage. Harvard extends to the visitors this evening, if not the keys of the cellar, its utmost hospitality and welcome; and it is unanimous in wishing the visitors every success in their exertions at Jordan Hall and later at the Union...
...stepped onto the ice shortly after 2 o'clock the Crimson was a decided favorite, but instead of making the best of its opportunity to score early over the supposedly weak Yale cubs, the team seemed dazed and powerless before the brilliant dashes of O'Hearn who showed the utmost self-confidence from the moment the puck first dropped between the two centers until he went off the ice a victor at the end of the third period. Norris at coverpoint was, next to O'Hearn,' the best Yale man on the ice and his tally in the second period...