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...understand that the attendance of the Pierian Sodality at rehearsals has been rather lax of late. Both of this year's concerts have been successful, but the members must keep in mind the fact that they still have several concerts before them. It is only by careful training and conscientions attendance at the rehearsals that they can fit themselves to represent Harvard creditably...
...spite of careful training, breaks down under the work required of him here is certainly too weak to row. The danger arises not from too much work but from too lax training. And the manner in which college men can aid the trainers of teams is by refusing the encouragement of their presence on occasions when training rules are disobeyed; then if the candidate continues in his dishonorable course, those who know the facts should inform the captain of the team for which he is trying...
...season is over, and tell me they knew-and-were not training. Why didn't they tell me when it might have done some good? Now I get the blame when I knew nothing of the fact." I hope Harvard men will learn to discriminate between "hard work" and "lax-training;" the latter is to be feared, the former is to be desired...
...undoubtedly spread rapidly over the whole union. But will this Australian system do away with bribery? The experience of Australia and England tends to prove the contrary. Closely connected to a ballot reform is a much needed reform in the registration. In most states the registration laws are extremely lax; the registration lists are changed very rarely, and the result is that men who are dead or have changed their residence, shall figure on the old lists. This naturally leads to "personating," a matter very difficult to deal with; the best remedy so far proposed is a method of description...
Some of the disadvantages which men coming here had been led to expect were: immoral and irreligious influences, lax and superficial spirit of work, extravagance, expense of living, snobbery, and others. Most of those who mentioned these thing found their anticipations to be groundless...