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Greater efficiency in the management of student affairs might occur with the inception of this experienced direction. Were it not that extra-curricular activities exist for other ends beside the mere accomplishment of office routine, the plan would have no apparent flaw. But the function and benefits of these undergraduate activities are so essentially divorced from the idea of formal instruction that any move to bring the two nearer together very much resembles an encroachment. Far more ultimate good is to be had from the self-teaching and individual assertion of free leaders than from the more systematic attention...
Schaefer he could find no technical flaw. In the mental notebook there was one entry, however: "Lacks fighting spirit." Said Matsuyama, "Put Schaefer on a table a foot higher than the regulation table and I'll play him for $1,000 a side...
...kind of taint or flaw...
Those who believed commercial misrepresentation in Cambridge to be confined to the last week in September, acknowledged open season on Harvard College, have discovered on the past two Saturday afternoons the flaw in such optimism. Charlatanry obtains a re-entry in the sale of a program to the Stadium-bound crowds. Cried on Boylston Street and adjacent avenues as a "football program," printed evidence finds the sponsors and agents of this cheat guilty of misrepresentation in the following details...
...Harvard men want to maintain themselves in their present precarious usefulness to Radcliffe, they must see that abnormally large buttons are issued to the cadets this week-end. The cogent critique printed elsewhere in this issue of the CRIMSON points to these brass protuberances as the one flaw in the otherwise enchanting make up of the men from West Point. Apparently the only hope lies in making these buttons large enough to balance the captivating effect of the gold braid decorations, each with its story of hard work and romantic adventure...