Word: interesting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...have read with interest the letter in your issue of this date, in which it is proposed to improve athletic conditions at Harvard by "cursing out" our athletic representatives when they have had the misfortune to meet with superior teams. I am quite sure that if any one is calling on us to curse the football team for the honorable defeat of last Saturday, our months will be closed, like Balaam's, in the attempt. In other words, while we can all echo "Ninety-Four's" call for vigorous efforts and enthusiastic support, we can not be carried away...
...chief reason, however, for addressing you was to call attention to a branch of intercollegiate contests in which Harvard has no need to excuse or explain herself. I refer to the annual debates in which her representatives have won such widely-noticed success. While athletic interests are hibernating it would certainly not be amiss for the body of students to turn their unoccupied loyalty and enthusiasm to these contests, more distinctly academic in their nature and apparently more suited to Harvard's peculiar talents than athletics. Why should our representatives in these events not share in the glory of champions...
...aims of the proposed University Club are such as will appeal to a majority of those who are familiar with the conditions of life at Harvard. It is the evident result of the elective system that community of interest, whether intellectual, or social, or athletic, is coming to have more and more influence in determining a man's companionships in college. This influence tends partly to weaken class feeling, and partly, by combining with it, to subdivide the members of each class into smaller groups of more or less closely affiliated members...
THURSDAY, the new weekly of special interest to college men, is offering $2000 for stories from students. Copies at CRIMSON office...
THURSDAY, the new weekly of special interest to college men, is offering $2000 for stories from students. Copies at CRIMSON office...