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...enlargement of quarters, and to meet this need five rooms have been secured for the next year. Numerous improvements concerned with matters of detail, will be made to perfect the reports of local Harvard news, and the New England Associated Press is to furnish us in the future with full telegraphic accounts of news in other colleges...
...meanings and the sould itself in a single one of its many functions. For the sould is not only that which gives form, but that which gives life, the mysterious and pervasive essence always in itself beautiful, not always so in the shapes which it informs, but even then full of infinite suggestion. In literature it is what we call genius, an insoluble ingredient which kindles, lights, inspires and transmits impulsion to other minds, wakens energies in them hitherto latent, and makes them startlingly aware that they too may be parts of the controlling purpose of the world. A book...
...temperaments and faculties, should be encouraged to take the course in modern languages as being quite as good in point of mental discipline as any other, if pursued with the same thoroughness and to the same end. And that end is Literature, for there language first attains to a full consciousness of its powers and to the delighted exercise of them. Literature has escaped that doom of Shinar whcih made our Association possible, and still everywhere speaks in the universal tongue of civilized man. And it is only through this record of Man's joys and sorrows, of his aspirations...
When the nine do poor work, the facts of the case are not to be disguised or softened in the least, and that such work has been done at times is undeniable. But, granting this, the circumstances of the year are always to be kept in mind, and full credit given for what the nine has done well. We hope that support will not be lacking this afternoon and that the game played by the nine will be a basis for more confident support in the Yale contest...
...wants a set of tennis and can find no other place in which to play than the courts in front of the reserved seats there is no reason why he should be deprived of his exercise simply because a ball game is in progress and the seats are full of people. But the objections have been not so much to the playing itself as to the fact that the men have been really careless about their personal appearance. American college athletes have the reputation of being far less careful about their costumes than the English. Doubtless the influence at work...