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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...will run for months or even years without furnishing convincing proof of their presence. Merely occasional revelations have led to the optimistic saw that "on the whole undergraduates are pretty honest fellows, after all." Altogether they are pretty honest fellows. But, and here is an important point, there will appear a small group of men who do incalculable evil by their unprincipled methods. A natural question, then, arises: what makes these few men so disproportionately effective? It is because the undergraduate standard of honesty is not universally positive enough to crush every attempt at deception. We quote from...
...petition the Athletic Committee to accept the clubs in affiliation with the Athletic Association. The committee, consisting of E. C. Brown '12 and H. C. Kittredge '11, which had been empowered to draw up and submit a petition on the matter to the Student Council, was authorized to appear before the Athletic Committee at its next meeting...
...yesterday there were barely enough men to make two teams. Now how can any kind of advancement in football be accomplished without even a working basis? Some men have perfectly good excuses for not being out, while others, and the majority in fact, do not appear just because of sheer laziness, or because they have some insignificant engagement which could be perfectly well put off. Without a good start how are we ever going to get together a team which will win from Princeton on the 4th of November? That is an unusually early date for a big game...
...section on cutting in the last report of the Dean of Harvard College reveals a condition of undergraduate laxity concerning College engagements which, upon serious consideration, cannot but appear wholly deplorable. By means of statistics prepared at the Office, the Dean shows that on the average every man in College cuts one engagement every week throughout the College year. This makes a total of 75,220 unexcused absences...
...present reviewer does not think quite so badly of the contents of the present issue as his zeal for helping the Monthly has led him to appear to think; yet he confesses he has seldom read a duller number of the Advocate...