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...other Freshman class, each member has a correspondingly larger personal responsibility. What it misses in numbers, it surely must have in collective capacity. There is always more potentiality in Freshmen than in the other groups of undergraduates. We not only expect but we are sure that 1921 will not disappoint the hope of all Harvard men--a hope that it may shed more honor on its guide than all preceding classes...
...Smith. The author makes ingenious use of the small boy's point of view to relate a fragment of the Saga of Eric the Red. The difficult style is well sustained, and the story is remarkable for happily chosen details. The small space devoted to the inner plot will disappoint readers who admire Kipling's "Puck of Puck Hill" series...
...meeting of the Athletic Committee from one of the Crack Canadian Teams with which we were going to play our first game. It seems that they were such cracks that they had a split in the team, and are therefore obliged to cancel the game. In order not to disappoint the immense crowd who has already bought his ticket, and to spare us the bother of cancelling a tremendous order with the Harvard Brewing Company for that night, we have decided to accept your offer of a practice game. We warn you however, that we will come fully equipped with...
...unsatisfactory feature of this period lay in the fact that the Harvard team did not do as well in its final game as its previous record would justify people to expect. The team after an almost unbroken record of excellent play, would come to their final game and disappoint their adherents. On the whole, the system may be said to have proved itself a distinct step in advance of the previous system, but it also showed that something was lacking which should be supplied before Harvard realized the fullest results from their system...
...application, as long as the supply lasted. Except in a few cases of invited guests, among whom are members of the Viking Club of Boston, the applications of those outside of the University, have not been considered. The management regret very much that they have been forced to disappoint so many applicants, especially among the students...