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...Monthly's leading article on "Our Wavering Paternalism" is interesting and provocative. It makes us think, and it moves us to reply. The author has a lot of good ideas, though he suggests no constructive plan of reform. One regrets that he feels it necessary to crouch under a pseudonym: we should like it better if he signed his name, better still if he would stand on his feet in that Forum which he scorns and meet his opponents face to face. For his tone is sneering, and some of his statements are debatable. There are many who would like...
Altogether this is a good specimen of the Monthly; not astonishing in any way, but well up to the high standard of the paper. There is no contribution that is not well written, no contribution that makes one feel that the editors were short of material and had to fill up somehow. It is frankly undergraduate, frankly literary, devoid of pretensiousness and and affectation, entirely normal and sane. Undergraduate publications are apt to be either trivial and careless or else over serious, too much impressed with their splendid mission. Both these pitfalls the Monthly successfully avoids...
...Andover tennis team made an unusually good showing in the Harvard Interscholastic Tournament on Saturday, winning thirteen matches. It will now be impossible for any team to defeat it. The other schools represented won the following number of matches: Exeter, 8; Stearns, 5; St. Mark's, 4; Newton High, 4; Volkmann, 2; Quincy High, 2; Milton Academy, 1; Somerville High, 1; Browne and Nichols...
Harvard is entirely willing to leave the decision of Roos's eligibility to Yale, and the CRIMSON believes that Yale's sense of good sportsmanship will arrive at the only just decision--the disqualification of Roos, and the awarding of the meet to Harvard...
...start was at Cottage Farm bridge. After the first quarter mile the Sophomores slowed down to a low, powerful stroke. The lead was steadily increased. Just before the finish Henderson urged his men on to a final spurt with which they swept across the line a good three lengths in the lead...