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...certain requirements of gentlemanly behavior and etiquette which have been taught us by our forefathers at Harvard. It seems imperative at the beginning of each year to recall some of those and to proclaim that there is a tacit understanding that they be adhered to by all those who come here. One of these maxims is this: it is undignified--by some it might be called bad manners --to make unnecessary noises with the crockery, to throw food and make a general disturbance in a hall where a large number of gentlemen are in the habit of congregating to take...
Newspaper abbreviations deprive the Springfield team from their complete name. The Training School from which they come devotes its energies to training men to fill positions in Y. M. C. A. work throughout the country. Much attention is paid to physical culture and gymnastic work of all kinds, and many of the students on graduation step into positions as athletic instructors in the Association's houses. The results of such a general all-around athletic training were marked last year, particularly in developing the new game of forward passes, onside kicks, and open formations to a high degree of efficiency...
...present time the University has in it one of the greatest runners the world has ever known, in Alfred Shrubb. It is without doubt the opportunity of a lifetime for a man who wishes to know how to run long distances to come out, and to learn without injury to himself. It is appalling in a University of 2071 eligible men, with this opportunity starting them in the face, that only twenty men are out running under his careful direction. If a man has never run, it is the time for him to try, for no one knows what...
Professor Walz contrasted conditions in this country with those in Germany and asked what had induced Professor Kuehnemann to come over. It was a longing to further his work. Harvard needed a man in touch with both past and present--such a man is Professor Kuehnemann. Professor Walz then extended to him the greeting of the Faculty...
Professor Kuehnemann was the last speaker. He had always felt it his duty, he said, to impress the power and personality of President Eliot and of the University on every one. It had been hard to decide to come over here for the second time and to leave Germany; but his sense of duty called him. He wished to spread the knowledge of what Germany had done in literature and what her great figure stood for among the young men of this country. To them, as the new generation, is his mission...