Word: callings
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Before the end of the football season makes the subject a dead issue, the CRIMSON wishes to call attention to a desirable change in the existing system of awarding football insignia. The University squad now numbers about thirty men, of whom perhaps fifteen will, by the end of the season, have won the right to wear the football "H". The others, who may be only a little less competent than the men for whom they are substitutes, will have no reward except the consciousness of duty well done...
Notices of the receipt at the Post Office of registered letters containing tickets for the Harvard-Cornell football game addressed to students living in the Cambridge postal district, will be sent out beginning tomorrow morning. The letters will not be delivered by carriers, but must be called for personally at the office. Notices of the arrival at the Post Office of the registered letters will not be accepted as sufficient means of identification, and students must be prepared to identify themselves with their Bursar's cards, H. A. A. tickets, etc. In order to facilitate the rapid delivery of tickets...
...classics, the "Joan of Arc" performance in the Stadium, the honors which were paid to President Eliot by Harvard clubs on his seventieth birthday, and the raising a few years ago of a $3,000,000 endowment fund for increasing the salaries of teachers. Finally Mr. Chapman issues a call for Harvard to return to the paths of academic rectitude; to forego the alleged endeavor at mere physical size and to become again the biggest influence in the college life of the country. This change Mr. Chapman would accomplish by replacing with "scholars" the "business men" of the Corporation...
Believing that many of the best things in Harvard life escape the notice of the undergraduates, we venture to call attention to Appleton Chapel and its services, as we presented the claims of Phillips Brooks House in this column on Wednesday...
...CRIMSON believes it worth while to call the attention of the University to the Phillips Brooks House Association. We are all aware of its existence, and we stand for its fundamental aims; but we tend to forget that it is no mere self-operating mechanism. Upon its temper and efficiency is staked the reputation of Harvard in more than one place, yet its usefulness is great or small according only to the intelligence and energy of the support which it receives from the student body...