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...care what kind of an affair Rice students would pull, but we profess to believe that something in the nature of the Harvard riot should be pulled here. Something that would serve to awaken the student body from its lethargy...
...valuable half hour is consumed in explaining that the Count has a son who has left his father's bed and board three years previous to the curtain to write popular songs in Parisian Tin-Pan Alley. Here, the son, Mr. Geoffrey Kerr, has been fortunate enough to awaken with his piano one night the charming Miss Bainter, playing the part of a Roumanian medical student. Thus acquaintance, attention, and infatuation in quick succession. A bailiff with a long name has come to the Count to attempt to reconcile the Father and son, and by the by to collect...
...Awaken Brotherly Feeling...
...reformed German schools tend to awaken a new feeling of brotherhood, and to overcome the differences of feeling between the aristocrats and the working boys. One innovation for creating a greater mutual understanding among all the students is a monthly all-day hike, which brings the teacher and his pupils very close together. But above all the new gymnasium teaches its students to recognize the meaning of a true culture of the mind...
...pleasant to be beaten continuously but it is a good thing for Harvard if it will awaken the undergraduate body to a realization of what is wrong there. Graduates who know the West realize that the stupid toryism which is putting New England on the toboggan industrially, for years with few and short intervals has had its dead hand on Harvard athletics. If intercollegiate sports are a good thing get the men who can teach you to win your share of contests. There is no virtue in any qualification other than the ability to win in a sportsmanlike manner...