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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Soldiers Field. Captain Wingate and Clark also hit well, each having two safe drives to his credit. In the field, the team played good ball, the two errors not proving disastrous in any way. Owing to Felton's masterly pitching, however, there was not much fielding to be done...
...Scoring Was Done...
...Juniors have contributed their share and it is up to the Class of 1915 to secure the success of the scheme by pledging the remaining sum as soon as possible. The whole sum must be collected by the end of the week. It is essential that this be done immediately, since the Corporation has already voted to bear its share of the total sum required and the contracts can not be awarded until the amount pledged by the undergraduates has been completed. The present plans call for the installation of the equipment before the opening of College in September...
...shall the balance be redressed? The writers of the prize essays are at some pains to suggest definite things that might be done. One of them is "more celebrations in connection with our illustrious graduates." One seldom hears mentioned the names, for instance, of Emerson, Longfellow, Summer, or Thoreau. Even Lincoln's birthday went by without any observance. The point here is that the undergraduate would be led to note the absence of names of men of athletic fame in the past, and to reflect upon the significance of it. Then the more intellectual clubhouses might be made to rival...
Whatever can be done in any of these ways to give to intellectual pursuits a higher place in the undergraduate esteem should, of course, be done. But the question is much more than a matter of details. As one of the essayists remarks, "the fundamental consideration is the development of a new public opinion that shall condemn and ostracize the laggard and recognize the leadership of the intellectual student." Impartial observes have noted a more serious attitude toward the intellectual side of university life in the West than in the East. Here it tends to become the custom...