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...develop this power of discernment is life's hardest task and the one upon which we must bestow our greatest care. Every familiarity with evil undermines our moral nature and strengthens the evil that is in us. On the other hand our associations with good break down the wrong and build up the right. God's aid alone is able to give us this ability to divide the good from the evil...
...will comprise a hundred or so of outsiders. They would enjoy noise, and would have nothing to lose by it. If Harvard men started to cheer, in all probability these outsiders would seize on the moment for extreme demonstrations, and then what of Harvard's reputation? If anything goes wrong, the general public will never discriminate between Harvard men and the outsiders; the whole blame will be thrown upon us. It is safest not to give an opportunity to noise-seekers...
...being separated to a great extent from the world, are always in danger of not accurately adapting students for activity. In old days, the university product was too often an overloaded and pedantic mind fed by a sickly body. The reaction came: the public declared that this was all wrong, that without health, knowledge was of little account. The needs of the body were made prominent, the student turned athlete, and now the university product is too often a heavy and powerful body feeding a diminutive mind...
...Under the rule of unanimous verdicts, (a) the accused is given the benefit of all reasonable doubt, (b) every jury-man's opinion must receive full consideration, (c) in case of disagreement, no wrong is done the accused...
...best features of the football matches would be lost if the support was onesided. It certainly would be well, however, to have college games before college assemblages. The athletic games which are largely attended by the outside public tend alike to give the public a wrong estimate of the function of universities, to give the students a wrong impression of what the outside world thinks important, and it also draws to the unversities a wholly undesirable class of notoriety-seeking, half-professional athletes. These, if no more, of the President's suggestions promise much practical benefit, and will repay thorough...