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...debating--the value to the man. The value to the University is worth considering also. Should Harvard feel less ashamed of losing a debate than a ball game? If men come to College to learn baseball or football, and that alone, an athletic defeat would rightly bring greater chagrin. But--the young men who sneer at Phi Beta Kappa and other scholarly achievements to the contrary notwithstanding -- one comes to College to improve one's mind, not one's batting eye. So a defeat in debating--since it is a contest of minds.--should be even more of a blow...
...perhaps alarming them when there was no cause for fear, or suggesting that they call when quiet would be better than company for the invalids. Yet there remained the fact that men went to the infirmary and were simply lost for a time, to their own and their friends' chagrin. A satisfactory remedy for this has at last been found in the list which will be posted each day in the Phillips Brooks House Office. Men interested enough to call on sick friends can there find out who is at the Infirmary, and at the same time no undesirable publicity...
...leak out. The Student Council would not be hampered by the necessity of balancing the results of a competition, which at best is no real test of executive ability, against the personal equation. The Council would be reasonable and fair in its judgments. The candidates would not have the chagrin of doing invidious begging to no avail. Finally, the friends of contestants would not have to drain their pockets to help in the glorious victory or dire defeat...
There appeared in yesterday's CRIMSON a notice stating that there would be no meeting in Music 3. Professor Spalding, whose name was signed to the notice, but who had had nothing to do with its insertion, waited in vain for his class. It is with chagrin that we must publicly announce that there is still among us a man who stoops to forgery as a means of avoiding attendance at his lectures. Afraid to face the result of his own cuts, he has adopted the method of the coward. Unfortunately this individual will remain in our midst, enjoying...
...spite of the natural chagrin felt by Harvard men at the unexpected result of the Yale game and the tendency to feel discouraged as to the outlook in football, nothing could be more unreasonable than to consider the season as a whole a serious set-back to Harvard athletics...