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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...another case, among a collection of manuscripts, is a letter from Benjamin Franklin expressing his concern at the Harvard fire of 1764. The Bible of President Increase Mather and a religious book, believed to be the only volume belonging to John Harvard which survived the fire of 1764, are also preserved. The collection is in a new set of cabinets recently given, together, with some furniture, by the visiting committee of the Board of Overseers to the Treasure Room. The exhibition will be on view for several months...
What is Mr. Rosenblatt, in his recent letter to the CRIMSON, trying to prove to us? He "agrees . . . . in condemning lynching, but asks any man what he would have done were he a resident of an ordinarily well-conducted and prosperous community in which such crimes had been perpetrated." If this implies anything more than a mere thirst for information, which can easily be gratified by asking any man verbally, it implies that lynching is the only possibility; that the said resident has no way open to him of improving the legal and police administration of his city save that...
Certainly the rest of the letter adopts a very different tone. "Mobs will be mobs" it says in effect. "The writer does not apologize for the outbreak, but merely attempts to explain it cause. . . . only to be expected . . . . who can answer for . . . . No wonder . . . ." Moral censure is certainly an ugly thing, and one likes to see it deprecated; but such deprecation to be effective should be consistent. If Mr. Rosenblatt writes in this truly Christian spirit of the lynching, then the least he can say of the original assault is that criminals will be criminals; that, in view...
...Faculty and undergraduates to create more participation in athletics be satisfied? Men would be interested in something which would afford them pleasure and exercise during their whole lives. Nothing so inspires a man to work for a team as the hope of reward in the form of a straight letter. The University has excellent facilities for playing. The four fields, Divinity, Jarvis, Holmes and Soldiers', if all properly cared for, could handle easily more than a hundred players every day. No vast new expense would be involved...
...great objection raised against creating new major sports is the subsequent cheapening of the value of an "H." But a tennis team consists ordinarily of six players, almost never more than this number. Six more letter wearers out of two thousand is not many. As against the advantages obtained by so raising the dignity of tennis, this principle criticism appears weak...