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...almost unnecessary to dwell on the importance of intercollegiate debating. It is about the only form of intellectual competition in which members of different universities meet. To excel in this form of intellectual competition has always been Harvard's aim and accomplishment, and so the double defeat last year when the new plan to make debating more of an undergraduate activity was first put into effect was exceedingly disappointing. Good debating teams can be produced only after severe competition to determine the best material and prolonged drilling to train that material. Therefore, if Harvard is to be successful this year...
There is room at Harvard for a student publication that will avoid subjects such as "The Quintessence of Kant," and prefer to dwell upon the less important, but far more hearty and genial, actualities of academic life. Though the Advocate has often ventured upon the deep waters of university learning, and withdrawn from them with no little credit, the true role of the journal undoubtedly lies in portraying the amiable customs of college existence; in hearkening to the murmurs of our miniature world, and its ideas, its little struggles, its trials and successes. The new issue of the Advocate lives...
...most instances the College authorities have allowed the students to regulate their personal habits in their own way. But in this case they presume to dictate that all who dwell within a certain distance of Harvard Hall, and especially those whose windows open towards that centre, shall be obliged to lie awake for the space of five minutes at 7 o'clock. The mode of life at the University has so changed in recent years that many students find no occasion, whatever for rising before 8 o'clock or even later. Why then should those who live within sound...
...comedy runs in three acts: one in a rising middle-western city of families that would also rise socially; one in Newport at midsummer among the socially ascending and ascended; and one in Boston among those who already dwell in a higher social aether. In all three scenes the central figure is Mrs. Alexander Smith--hyphenated after the first act--who wishes to mount socially and who deserves her progress. At Breezeboro, where the action begins, she is capable of handling simultaneously a perturbed party of women at bridge and a high-placed matron of New York who has dropped...
...though it may help to correct the lack of humor and proportion with which this matter is commonly viewed. Even the editor of the "Illustrated" feels called upon to justify the publication of a criticism of football! Both Mr. Cole and W. Lippmann '10, who writes a sympathetic letter, dwell on the spectator's aspect of football, while J. Waid '10 replies with the familiar indorsement of the game as a school for the manly virtues. But the whole discussion loses force from being somewhat vague and sentimental. There is too much regard shown for "the American people...