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Others who fail to find in the picture the face they seek, assert with conviction that college politics, not beauty, governs the selection of the 24 bearers of the Daisy Chain. Still others condemn the whole Daisy Chain as "cheap," "vulgar." "It much resembles a bathing-beauty contest!" cry they. "Daisy Chains should be abolished...
...further that Dr. Eliot has not "noticed" far enough. What shall we do with the cases of Mathew Arnold, Montaigne, Disraeli and others, who, it seems to me, upset Dr. Eliot's argument that "they have not turned out well." . . . Are we to condemn that phase arbitrarily as unfortunate? Then condemn a large part of your race...
...delightful as the prospect is, especially those who condemn, rightfully or not, the semi-professional methods of collegiate athletics, it cannot become a real condition unless the grandstands drop a little of their Nordic earnestness, and exchange a little of their burning fervor for the more suave encounters of Latin contestants. So long as the spectators fill football with the same excitement with which the Pilgrims fought the devil, so long as they feel that it is a dishonor to lose and a matter of conscience to win, the same rigid regime of fasting and praying will train the povitiates...
...appeal to the Alumni of our beloved Harvard to check the work of those who control Harvard's policy at present! I cry out in appeal to all Harvard men to do all they can to censure and condemn the policy of the university which has forced Professor Baker: the man who has attracted aspiring dramatists from all over the country to work with him, from out our Faculty! Sidney H. Blackstone...
...Newman is unmerciful to the man Wagner. His object is not, however to condemn him, but to make him the more real by the contrast of his pettiness and infirmities of character with his essential greatness of achievement. There is an enormous gap, we find, between the man and the artist?"the most many-sided of musicians...