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...only one copy has reached the libraries of Greater Boston, certain lovers of learning usually appropriate it from the shelves of Widener two days before the hour examination and browse through it. When the examination has passed the book reappears. Common considerations of honesty and fair play do not deter these people; they brave the fear of discovery and the wrath of the librarian in their omnivorous search for knowledge. To call these people schoolboys is to understate the case; a schoolboy sometimes doesn't know any better...
What subtle irony! What an efficient pricking of the German sympathy bubble! Our sentimental friends who plead for pity on "poor bleeding Germany" should read this letter. The memory of Louvain called up here so vividly would perhaps deter them from their path of mercy...
...some 150 Freshmen in the Yard this year the class of 1922 has not yet been thoroughly welded into a single whole. Now the Yard Freshmen are to be given an opportunity to board with their fellows in Gore and Standish Halls. No mere matter of physical distance should deter them from taking advantage of this proferred chance to get better acquainted with their class; the benefits far outweigh any possible disadvantages. Let us not see 1922 go through college with a "Yard clique" distinct from the rest of the class...
...offered the same privilege of selection, and the same advantages of participation, as he would find, relatively, in his academic work. He may not row on the first crew any more than he would get all A's--but as fear of missing this latter honor does not deter him from developing his mind, so there seems no reason for him to hesitate to develop his body because it may never bring him an "H". "The fault, dear Brutus," lies not in our athletic system, but in ourselves...
...little too prone to mistake excitement for duty. The outbreak of the war naturally makes people a little excited, but this is a time when every man and boy should have a more than usually keen sense of duty, should not allow excitement or exuberance of patriotism to deter him from performing to the best of his ability the obligations that lie before him; and until the age or the opportunity of rendering real military or other service arrives, the duty of the boy or young man is to train himself to clear thought, to steady application, and to persistent...