Word: farness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...extends through every department of sport, and indeed through the whole of the less serious side of the University life, is an utter lack of permanent organization. The policy of the Faculty and the other University officials is to leave the regulation of athletics and of social questions so far as possible to the undergraduates themselves. The Athletic Committee's function is not to guide and develop, but to restrain. Its work is in a sense purely negative. In many respects this policy of non-interference is wise, but it has a distinct disadvantage, for it makes a permanent policy...
...Taken on Approval," although clever, is silly and does not justify its length-it is by far the longest contribution in the number. "When I'm Polite," is an anecdote not worth the telling and it is not very well told either. The number contains the usual collection of literary gymnastics under the head of "College Kodaks." One of these, called "My Lady of Boston," is in miserable taste and reminds one of the well known fable of the Fox and the Grapes...
...secret of this love and respect that he inspired in all who knew him? I think it is best answered by one word, character. Through his whole life his high character was stamped on whatever he did, whether at his studies or in athletics, or while working on the far away Berkshire farm, or engaged in his business occupation of the past two years Never did a man better exemplify Harvard's motto of "Veritas." He seemed to be true to his own self in everything he did and said. We all felt as we looked into his clear open...
...far this year, with the exception of the Pierian Concert, only one musical entertainment has been given in Cambridge, and ordinarily there are but two, one in the fall and one in the spring. We would suggest that, if practicable, a series of "pop" concerts, or informal smokers, would be well attended, and would serve to give the college itself the benefit of the ability possessed by all the clubs...
Through these means the noblest and finest animals in the world are allowed to be exterminated. Congress has even so far refused to protect the animals in the Yellowstone Park. The only means of effective preserves now used is by private game preservers and such organizations as the New York Zoological Society. For the future hope is to be expected from the rousing of the popular opinion through the press and through the natural history societies...