Word: club
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Baseball games will be on the former jayvee field behind the varsity third base stands, while softballers will use the regular House field. Tennis will be on courts 31 through 35, but the golf teams, with no definite battlefield, will have to shift from country-club to country-club...
...Advocate is without a doubt heading in the right direction. In last month's issue, the editors attempted to deal with "The Jew at Harvard"; now, in the April issue, they present a pre-and-con discussion of the Club System. Both topics are serious and important ones, and it is a pity that the handling in each case has been so inadequate...
...argument for the Clubs has been written anonymously (and illogically) in a sprightly and rather witty tone. The author admits that Clubs "probably" have a bad effect on the academic efforts of their members, but claims that they "offer the undergraduate a congenial circle of friends that the college at large does not try to offer him." He considers his Club friends to be less stand-offish than "the average Harvard man," but fails to make it clear whether or not those genial Club men are genial only with other Club men or if they are just naturally "hail-fellows...
...Club System Con" is hardly more enlightening. The writer (also anonymous) seems casual and tired of it all even at the beginning. He dallies with a few truisms (that the New England aristocracy isn't much of an aristocracy, and that much of Harvard's "apathy" is the fault of the Clubs), but his case is confused, contradictory in places, and concludes bitterly by comparing the System to "a roach on the wall...
...phoned up the Rugby Club's defensive pillar. Eddie Davis over at the Business School Monday night to see if we could scare up a couple of good flashy quotes. "Oh," moaned Eddie when informed of our purpose, "I'm too tired to think, say anything you want...