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...minor sports one may find exercise in almost any form, can find everything save perhaps the glamor of being a possible "college hero". In short in them lies the key to all general participation in athletics and until their ranks are overcrowded, there is no reason to decry the lack of an opportunity...
With all the nervous preparation that precedes the youngest daughter's a debut, Harvard is decorating the house--stringing advantageous lanterns and fabricating white fountains in exciting places. The Yard is rapidly losing its staid respectability and assuming the artificial glamor which distant relatives and more distant story-writers expect of it. And the Seniors, most of whom have too much to do at present any way, are losing many valuable hours on tours of inspection, on discussing the whys and hows of the water system. The bandstand is as yet in too embryonic a state to attract attention...
...Filene's suggestion thus seems feasible. Most students would forego the non-essential gift, and a mere week's "hardship" is no hardship. European nations incidentally still embrace constitutional fallacies which serve but to intensify the alluring glamor of--well, say a summer about the Sorbonne...
...reputation of a college today depends first of all on its scholastic standard; to a lesser degree on its athletic prowess. A college is mistaken if it assumes that the glamor of gridiron victories will offset a mediocre scholastic standard. Intercollegiate athletics, however, are of such importance that, if it is an error to carry them to excess. It is also a fault to burden them unnecessarily with overfine restrictions. The rule, which makes ineligible for one year students transferring from some other institution, is just and fair, for it prevents men, who may not be able to pass...
...recent numbers of the Bulletin I have observed, with some amusement, not unmingled with sorrow, the palpitant emotion of certain contributors to its columns anent the alarming tendency of preparatory school graduates to choose for matriculation other colleges than Harvard. The glamor of athletic supremacy, which for some years has been Harvard's, has not, apparently, resulted in an increase of applicants for admission--far from it, if the latest figures from Andover and Exeter are to be believed. And yet, does not the remedy for this condition lie in Harvard's own hands...