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...from the investigations it is reasonable to say that there is no undue strain put on the athletes while they are in training and their later history seems to show they were benefited rather than harmed. Comparison of mortality of specialized athletes with the average graduate who does not distinguish himself in athletics is decidedly in favor of the athlete. The table of deaths further shows that the percentage of mortalities as the result of consumption and heart disease is lower in the case of athletes. Whether or not this fact is due to his development as an athlete...
...which reason compels our mind to adopt. Predominant over all matter we find that curious, spiritual thing called personality. Love, dreams of power, music, intellectual activities-abstract qualities which one cannot buy, see, not touch-all denote that we move in a spiritual realm. If these personal qualities-which distinguish man from animals-are spiritual, and therefore immortal, why should not persons be? To one who considers all the great minds and intellectual geniuses which the world has produced, skepticism is less satisfactory than the opposite view. Dying flowers rise again to fruit; decaying vegetable matter is born again. Following...
...introductory speech Dean Wright stated that the name of the Graduate School was changed last year to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, to distinguish it from the other graduate or professional schools of Law, Divinity and Medicine. The School, said Dean Wright, has been largely increased this year, there being 189 new students out of a total 355. Of these, 125 have never been connected with the University...
...fair proposition, however, that any participation by Harvard University should be characteristic of Harvard and comparable in dignity with our own Commencement procession and exercises? It is true that the official invitation from the promoters of the intercollegiate section of the parade suggests that each delegation be distinguished in the line of march by "college colors, flags, trophies, or other unique designs characteristic of Harvard life," thus manifesting "the truly patriotic and national spirit which animates the school," but it was to have been hoped that no delegation of Harvard men could conceive that they were doing anything but misrepresenting...
...Sard, W. W. Manton and F. H. Haskell were constituted a committee to procure lapel buttons suitable for members of the class to wear until the time of putting on caps and gowns, in order that they may distinguish each other more readily...