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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this is the outgrowth of a condition which disgraces popular government--the fact that the "bigger" men, those best qualified to judge cases involving business matters, are only to ready to shirk jury duty on the least excuse. Jury-dodging is one of the easiest things in the world; a plea if important business, physical weakness, or travel--excuses which the judge can scarcely question--are easy roads to freedom. But such evasion is sure to lead back to the slacker himself; if he refuses service himself, how can he expect a competent jury when his own case comes...
Adverse criticism is the easiest kind to give to such a proposal as this; yet it is difficult to find objectives for attack in its present form. The criticism that will be heard most frequently, no doubt, not only of the Hughes program but of the conference as a whole, is that it ignores the ideal--the elimination of war--and subserves everything to the ends of economic advantage. This perhaps is true; yet it is as valid for praise as for condemnation, because under the existing order we must recognize, if reluctantly, that practical considerations are the only ones...
...Athletic Committee, we have heard, may take some definite action in this direction. We suggest that the first action consist of making it possible for at least one side of the Stadium to be entirely reserved for Harvard men and their guests. The easiest way to do this would, of course, be to stop in the future the sale of any tickets to the Harvard stands to the public, limiting them entirely to members of the University and graduates. Once that has been done it will be time to consider the dregs of the bowl...
...next match against the Richmond Country Club proved to be the easiest of the trip--the University winning nine to nothing, and losing only one set in all the matches played. The Norfolk Country Club went down to defeat by the score of four to three, and the Navy met a similar fate at Annapolis, losing eight matches and winning only one. The last victory of the team was over the Chevy Chase Country Club, by the score of four to three--Captain de Turenne winning a hard-fought, three-hour match against Moore, champion of the city of Washington...
Self-government is, in general, the most satisfactory kind of government in an intelligent community. It develops an "esprit de corps" and a feeling of co-operation which cannot otherwise be attained. In recent years Harvard undergraduates, following the easiest course, have gradually turned over to the college authorities the management of the principal student activities, with the exception of class elections. Last fall's episode showed a surprising lack of interest in our only remaining student function...