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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...members of the board are absent in military training. It is improbable that the class will be able to publish any album later on, so the Freshman publication this year is of especial value, as giving a complete record of all the members of 1921. The book will not differ very greatly from previous Freshman year books; it will contain pictures of the entire class, and give analyses of the various activities...
...Orals are one of our few traditions; what the fence is to Yale, the Orals are to us, and both are equally hard to get through. Tomorrow the ceremony begins; one by one we file in, take our guess, and leave. The Orals differ from other examinations in they are the only tests for which one cannot prepare. They are merely a matter of imagination, sang-froid and volubility, or what the ball player calls speed, and accuracy of control. Like the same sport, three misses and the candidate is "out" for the rest of the year. We advise...
...Lazarus and I apparently agreed that the present product of the American schools and colleges is unsatisfactory; in what respects and to what extent this is so, we seem to differ. Let us examine the nature of the evil. What "kind of men have we among those who play an important part in public affairs? We have business men who find it necessary, in order to call forth the most efficient exercise of their capabilities in service,-note that word,-to their country, to work under the added stimulus of profits so abnormal as to be the cause of public...
...many of which have no remotest connection with this or with any other institution of learning. I have few better friends anywhere than President Lowell and many of my colleagues here. On but few points of policy and on no point whatsoever of purpose and intent would my views differ from those which I know to be held by the present Administration of Harvard. In short, President Lowell and the present Administration command, and always will command, my most enthusiastic loyalty and support...
Informal hockey teams were authorized by the Committee for this winter, and crew and baseball for the spring. These will be organized as in the case of football, and will differ from the teams of ordinary years only in the fact that they will not represent the University formally in intercollegiate athletics...