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...fight its battles, to push its interests, and a great deal of the wrong that is done is concealed from the actors by their devotion to the welfare of the concern. Even in charitable and educational institutions one feels this strongly. They struggle against one another to the detriment of the cause in which they profess to be engaged, until the army of the Lord sometimes reminds one of that of Midian which was destroyed before Gideon because every man's sword was against his fellow. If this be true of institutions whose professed object is unselfish, how much more...
Yale suffered more from penalties than did Harvard, a thing which is encouraging to Harvard men. Crimson teams have often been at fault in this respect, but in Saturday's game the team played a hard and eager game without this detriment...
...unfortunate that we at Harvard can give so little attention to our visiting teams. We are so overwhelmingly interested in the partisan side of athletics that we have forgotten that a social side can be added without detriment to the spirit of rivalry. At present most of our athletic visitors spend the night in Boston and do not come out to Cambridge until just before the game. Immediately afterward they go back to town, having seen no more of Harvard than the Square, the Stadium, the Locker Building, and the historical bridge across the Charles...
...institution of the projected idea would immediately manifest itself in a much higher average mark. That, then, is the great justification for the proposed move: it will tend to induce every man to do his best in scholarship, as most are at present doing in outside affairs to the detriment of deserved academic credit. This argument in favor of the publication of marks we consider to outweigh every thing which has so far been said in opposition...
...fall competition, so that this is the first opportunity for members of the class of 1913 to try for the paper. By this time they should be well enough grounded in their studies and have found their bearings sufficiently to enable them to take part in this competition without detriment to their work. This is, moreover, the last competition for the Sophomore class, and as the number of men on the 1912 board has been increased to eleven, two more editors will be taken from that class if suitable men are found...