Word: calls
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Captain Wrightington has issued a call for candidates for next year's eleven, and has especially asked that men should come out who have never played before. Here then is the chance that is needed to make an effort to root out the spirit of individualism of which we spoke in an editorial yesterday morning. Here is a chance to show that the enthusiasm which characterized the football meeting on Thursday night was as truly deep and sincere as it appeared to be. Let men for once throw aside every private interest and come out and work for the University...
...Call it by what name we will a spirit of individualism or indifference does exist among the students in this University and has existed for some time past. Graduates have come back to Cambridge from time to time and have scoffed at the idea. The fact is they have not known the truth, probably no one does realize it fully outside of the student body. Harvard students of today are enthusiastic at bottom. Their affection for their Alma Mater is as strong as it ever was, but they are not so willing to show it as they were twenty years...
...response to the call for candidates for the Weld Boat Club crew forty-two men gave their names. The average weights given were over 150 pounds. There was no run yesterday, the work consisting merely of rowing on the machines in the gymnasium...
Again we would call attention to the football talk to be given tonight in Sanders Theatre. The talk is intended to be as much for the students in general as for the football men, and will not be upon the technical or scientific points of the game, but upon the spirit with which Harvard men should to into athletic contests. Besides Mr. Roosevelt and Dr. Bradford, other well known graduates will probably speak. We feel sure that the theatre will be crowded and that the speakers will receive a warm welcome from the students...
...wish to call attention to one respect in which the privileges of the library are abused by some members of the University. I refer to the habit of marking books. Many books, especially those which are reserved in the reading room, and which all the members of a course have to use, are disfigured throughout by underscorings and marginal lines, and even by marginal comments, which become in some cases little controversies between unknown critics. Aside from the distracting effect of these marks on the reader, causing him involuntarily to emphasize portions usually least important, the practice is morally wrong...