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...calling the attention of their opponents in the contest in educational methods to these suggestive figures, and from them draw the obvious conclusion that the elective system, as exemplified at Harvard, is becoming more and more popular, and that the old system of requiring Latin and Greek must yield...
...train a man to be more punctual than the necessity to be in class-room at the recitation hour. In fact, there is no earthly excuse for clinging to the old puritanical and narrow-minded policy of compulsory chapel. The college world demands the change and corporations must certainly yield...
...members of the band will win fame and gratitude for themselves, pleasure and recreation for the college at large, and new laurels in musical accomplishments for Harvard. With such high aims set before them, we do not see how the members of the college band can allow themselves to yield to any influences toward Harvard indifference which they may find around them...
...members of the band will win fame and gratitude for themselves, pleasure and recreation for the college at large, and new laurels in musical accomplishments for Harvard. With such high aims set before them, we do not see how the members of the college band can allow themselves to yield to any influences toward Harvard indifference which they may find around them...
...Harvard Athletic Committee-body of august power and marvelous foresight-to have delayed their decree until the inter-collegiate association had made the annual changes in the rules. Surely if there is the strong public opinion on the subject which the committee has painted, the association must of necessity yield to the opinion and change the rules. That there will be great changes this year, and every one of them in the direction desired by the committee, Elihu feels sure, but alas! our saint and his suggestion are outside that inner circle of genius and culture which the committee represents...