Word: feels
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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With reference to a communication favoring a "college orchestra" which appeared in your columns yesterday, we feel that a replay is necessary, lest those unacquainted with the activities of the Pierian Sodality Orchestra may be led to a wrong impression regarding the same. Mr. Goldberg's favors the following reforms more systematic regulation of discipline, programs, and personnel. A review of our present season alone would be sufficient to show that the standard of the Pierian Sodality not only satisfies Mr. Goldberg's demands, but surpasses those set by many of the orchestras subsidized by the faculties of other colleges...
Candidates for the Freshman lacrosse team were called out on Monday afternoon but only two men reported. This is doubtless due to the hesitation that many men feel about trying for a sport in which they have had no previous experience. As a matter of fact the game offers exceptional opportunities for inexperienced men. Few members of the present University team had ever played the game before coming to College...
...fear seems unnecessarily exaggerated. The University will be termed reactionary by very few for supporting a camp which the government considers of value in the maintaining of an army, for with Mexican intervention imminent, and a standng force too small even to patrol our southern borderline, very few will feel that the United States over-emphasizes the military...
...this is not to say that it is a weak number. From beginning to end it is distinctly the work of gentlemen who show a commendable, even if somewhat immaturely executed, endeavor to write English worthy of our best traditions. All of us at Harvard may feel justifiable pride in the fact that in these days of so much debased printed English, the young men who edit our college papers keep to standards of literary dignity...
...still has far to go. Too few men realize that they come to college primarily to study, or if they realize it themselves, are too weak in their condemnation of the men who fail to observe it. If a man on probation were shunned as the devil, we could feel pretty sure that only those--and they are few--who were mentally incapable of earning two C's and a D would be there. As it is even the athlete, immensely more in the college eye than any other man, deprives a team of his services and is excused. Change...