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...method of choosing Rhodes scholars, put into practice for the first time this fall, remedies three defects in the old system. The committees of se-Fruition have been reorganized. In the past, when certain College officials were the judges, there was a tendency to reserve the honors for men from their several institutions. The committee is now composed of former Rhodes scholars, and their familiarity with conditions at Oxford makes them competent to select students best fitted to meet these conditions with success...
When the time comes, if the time should come, of just war Harvard will not fail. Until that time we must counsel how most wisely and most calmly we may prepare, and bring our counsels to fruition...
...good fortune to live until the purposes he had labored for through many years had been accomplished or were in good promise of rapid fulfilment; and although he did not see the full fruition of his work, the time had come when he could say that his great task for Harvard was practically done: the development of what he has accomplished can now be safely left to other hands. The place that he leaves empty in the hearts of his friends no one can fill. B. S. HURLBUT...
...McBride and his men have worked faithfully and the college has supported them. Never has so large a number of men been in training, not only for the university, but for the various fall teams playing with one another. Never has the ideal college sport, as the outcome and fruition of play at home, been so fully realized. Never has a college been more loyal to its teams in adversity. Never has a team physically weaker more distinguished itself than in tieing Harvard, and never has heart-breaking defeat like that inflicted by Princeton been endured with more silent dignity...
...fitted to the conditions of student life. Professor Peabody emphasized the value of the recent development of charity work among the students in bringing into real unity the various moral, religious and benevolent activities of the University. He expressed the belief that the movement was bringing to a real fruition the purposes set forth in the meeting at Sanders Theatre last fall when the present form of the enterprise was inaugurated...