Word: due
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Such censure as has followed the race is extremely unfair to all concerned and wholly unjustified. It is always easy to criticise. When criticism is justly due, in athletics or in other University affairs, let it come. But rather than jump to conclusions, as in this case, from the mere result of a race, let those who criticise first acquire a thorough knowledge of the facts of the situation. WILLIAM G. GRAVES...
Post mortem discussions of athletic events are never pleasant, especially when a Harvard team has been defeated; but when the defeat is due to a flagrant violation of the first principles of coaching, it cannot pass without a word of protest...
...current number of the Advocate is in many was a worthy and even remarkable product of the undergraduate literary mind. There is throughout a note of maturity, due no doubt to the peculiar atmosphere of Harvard as contrasted with other universities. The main editorial, dealing with the American stage through the medium of a lecture by Mr. Percy MacKaye, is a thoughtful and unusually serious statement of modern dramatic effort. If somewhat idealistic in tone, we must remember that the idealism of youth becomes oftentimes the truth of age. The quotation from Arnold is significant: "Organize the theatre! The theatre...
...attraction offered by municipal research is due to the fact that it seems to promise a realization of the great American dream that usually grows dimmer and dimmer after college walls are left behind, viz: "Self-government for the benefit of all the governed." This dream will never come true simply because college men go into politics. Unless college training has radically changed within the last twelve months, it would be a civic tragedy to turn over the government of American cities to men chosen simply because they were college men. In talking to our professors, to our students...
...active part it has taken in making its members acquainted with prominent guests, and for its success in imparting to the organization a truly German atmosphere. The celebration this evening is indicative of the spirit in which the Verein is conducted. Possibly the unusual activity this year is due to peculiar causes; but whatever the reason, the other foreign societies will do well to follow this plan, and endeavor to be really representative of the countries for which they stand. Our foreign societies are too much inclined to feel free from their responsibilities after the presentation of a stereotyped annual...