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This University has enough men of leisure to man at least twenty-five boats every afternoon this fall. The football team can well spare a few of the many Idlers who watch its daily practice, and the facilities of the two boathouses can be used to much better advantage than they have ever been in the past. The complaint that Harvard has a dozen spectators for every athlete has been a frequent one in our athletics; the dormitory rowing season offers a good opportunity for lessening the disparity...
...Haven, Conn., October 8, 1909.--Yale will play the Springfield Manual Training School tomorrow afternoon, the fourth game on its schedule. The Yale team has been improving this week and should show far better work than in the last game, that with Holy Cross. The Springfield team is light but fast and last Saturday defeated Amherst 6 to 5 in an exciting game...
...common measure; that Harvard may stand in the future, as she has stood under the long line of my predecessors, for the development of true manhood, and for the advancement of sound learning; and that her sons may go forth with a chivalrous resolve that the world shall be better for the years they have spent within these walls...
...college should be to prepare for the study of a definite profession, or the practice of a distinct occupation; and that the subjects pursued should, for the most part, be such as will furnish the knowledge immediately useful for that end. But if so, would it not be better to transfer all instruction of this kind to the professional schools, reducing the age of entrance thereto, and leaving the general studies for a college course of diminished length, or perhaps surrendering them altogether to the secondary schools? If we accept the professional object of college education, there is much...
...amore. Even the account of the bold dash of Dr. Crook to the North Pole (now at last definitely located at Perkins Hall) though based on a joke never very funny and surely as old as the hall in question is undeniably amusing. As usual, the drawings are better than the other matter. The centre-page by Steel '11, is not only witty, but really refreshingly thoughtful. In a humorous way it points a moral which, with modifications, may be safely commended to Freshmen. There is a good conception, likewise in the drawing of "The Pioneers," greeting the rising...