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...more of the Sophomore class to get into closer touch with its foreign members is the step in a direction hither-to neglected by undergraduate Harvard. The foreign student under present conditions has very little chance to get acclimated. Phillips Brooke House welcomes him, and welcomes warmly, but his receptions there are necessarily of a semi-official character. Brooks House cannot and does not try to take the place for the "stranger within the gates" of the social life enjoyed by other men in the class with family anchors to windward...
...example of the inverted logic that stamps our campus thought. In reality, college should serve us; it should be an instrument in our lives, we should be its masters and the governors of its destiny. But instead we have become the slaves of the machine; we run hither and thither in agony of futile haste; we compete where no end is served and no result achieved; we sweat over unloved tasks and neglect the true business of life; we erect and execute useless schemes, multiplying the worries of life, cluttering our days with rubbish, blasting Leisure and wasting our strength...
...hoary customs were forced to hide their faces for very shame, and none of them dared to reappear, except on Merrymount, until dour Cromwell was succeeded by the lively Charles. Then one by one they came back until in 1719 Sewall mournfully writes "New England men came hither to avoid anniversary days, the keeping of them, such as the twenty-fifth of December...
...question of intersectional games is a matter of opinion. "The trouble comes when they are overdone". Absolutely correct, But, as we have frequently remarked before, the danger of their being over done is real. And rather than have the Harvard football team sent hither and thither to help "destroy the ideas of Harvard snobs and dudes", we would limit intersectional contests more than they are limited...
William McFee is the ship's engineer of a tramp steamer travelling hither and yon over the Seven Seas. This man of machines, who loves the intricacies of boilers and turbines, is at the same time a writer and a thinker of unusual merit. With the eyes of a poet, he surveys the life about him, on shipboard, in unfrequented corners of the earth, and then, in his spare time, he gives his impressions to the world through essays and short sketches that have a scholarly tone reminiscent of Lamb, yet enlivened by a virile strain inseparable from...