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...have been a Harvard student for over two years, and have been in touch with student activities in various ways. Harvard is essentially undemocratic, aristocratic, pandering to wealth and the idle rich, fostering snobbishness and class distinction. . . . The members of Harvard's exclusive clubs, in which a Wall Street rating is prerequisite for membership, are so removed from the few common students here that they cannot be reached with a thousand foot pole. . . . It is true Harvard has no Greek letter fraternities, but Harvard has just as snobbish and detrimental club system, whose baneful influence is lessened only...
Five days later, Mr. Howard B. Day attacked Mr. Whitney on the grounds that his idea of "ordinary wealth" is "different than yours and mine." This communication, entitled "The Harvard Quibblers" uses the fact that Mr. H. Payne Whitney, Senior, "is one of the largest financiers of Wall Street" as conclusive evidence that the young Whitney's ideas of democracy and wealth must be decidedly biased...
...mystery in regard to "H. Payne Whitney, Jr." becomes even more involved in the "Illini" of February 2. Here a correspondent, who boasts that he "has no Wall Street rating, but comes from a family of very ordinary means from a little New England village of five hundred," takes up the defense of the apparently mythical "Mr. Whitney". "The writer knows Mr. Whitney quite well," he says, "and Mr. Whitney is widely known for his democracy, friendliness, and courtesy, as well as exceptional personal ability". As the communication is signed "Harvard '23", the identity of Mr. Whitney's friend...
...completely overturned the net. Football tactics were in order from first to last, the clever blocking of Humphrey and Owen on the Crimson back-ice proving one of the features of the battle. That pair of gridiron stars stepped into the hardest shots fearlessly, and put up a stone-wall opposition to the visitors' advance. Their checking defense was superb and without exception every Canadian forward who broke through the line for an individual attack ended his career on the boards...
Haight, at coverpoint for the visitors, captured individual honors for the losers, smashing through the University's forwards time and again only to be brought up short by the stone-wall defense of Owen and Humphrey on the back...