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...Letters series Mr. Thomas Wentworth Higginson '41 gives a discerning and appreciative estimate of the life, work and literary position of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The book, written by a distinguished Harvard man about one of Harvard's most famous professors, will have a peculiar interest for Harvard readers. Of greatest interest to them will be some hitherto uncollected facts as to Longfellow's life in Cambridge, while new information about the poet's youth and first literary efforts will appeal to all readers...
...hitherto, the line was Harvard's greatest weakness, and it was not until the men began to play low that the Amherst attack could be stopped. Another reason for Harvard's wretched defense was that the team was too slow and spiritless and waited until the ball reached the line instead of trying to break through and spoil the play before it had started. In advancing the ball the backs followed their interference fairly well, but they did not turn in soon enough, and in running back or making a big arc were frequently tackled with no gain. The team...
Dean Hurlbut was the next speaker. One of the greatest perplexities for the new student, he said, is that of sifting all the different advice he receives. In sifting it, in deciding upon his line of conduct, there are two fundamental questions he should ask himself. The first is, "What am I going to do for Harvard?" The second was suggested by a man who has been called the "ideal type of Harvard man"-it is, "What am I going to do for the other fellow...
...forestry is nothing but scientific lumbering. Its object is commercial. Its problems are expressed in terms of board feet, rate of reproduction, access to a market--terms which a landscape architect has nothing to do with--and the trees which park commissioners and landscape gardeners look upon with the greatest pleasure are considered by the forester as timber that is over-ripe or "forest weeds." To give proper training in this profession Harvard would have to secure no small equipment, and to set out to do this at present would seem to me to be following our pride rather than...
...intelligent service, convenience in getting what they need and the chance to buy goods at lower prices than obtain elsewhere. They do not want to take an active part in the management of the Society. The clearest proof of this is the insignificant attendance at the annual meetings; the greatest changes in personnel of the Board of Directors and in questions of policy have been brought about by twenty or twenty-five men as those meetings; a number hardly to be considered as representative of the Society at large...