Word: letting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...anarchist, marred what was otherwise a clever burlesque of the villain of melodrama by continual overemphasis. He is potentially the best actor in the cast, but fails to "arrive" on account of such faults as a noisy and meaningless spatting of his hands and a reluctance to let go of his consonants. F. M. Gunther '07 proved himself worthy of the better acting chance furnished in the burlesque, "The Goirl of the Golden Pest," by his not too emphatic satire of the matinee idol. It was a piece of mock heroics all the funnier for being in restraint. The palm...
...Arkush's story, "The Greater Hypocrite," brings together one of the most unpleasant groups of (let us hope) fictitious undergraduates that can be met with in College fiction. As a sketch of types of character, it suffers from the mistake common in stories in the College magazines--that of attempting to describe in half a dozen pages people whom a skilled novelist would require a volume to make real. There are appreciative reviews of Professor C. E. Norton's new book on Longfellow and Mr. Underwood's volume on gardens. The editorial on the lectures in the Union is well...
...most extravagant items in the expense, and are accordingly the object of violent attacks by the opponents of collegiate commercialism, who decry the general recklessness which attends the management of these tables, and who are continually exhorting the undergraduates to put more fun and good fellowship into their sports. Let all such critics consider the fact that the training table is the largest contributor to the democratic side of athletics and to "athletic good-fellowship" that we have. By its means men from all positions and phases of our diversified University life come to know to sympathize with...
...minor and class sports I realize the value of the training table to be equally great as in the case of the varsity sport; but, as the minor sports are run on a smaller scale, let them have their training table with a proportionately less expensive outlay and make it as near the average board as possible. Thus they would receive all the advantages of this institution and escape all censure for extravagance...
...other colleges are willing to do so also. Harvard would then be at such an obvious disadvantage that candidates for the teams would from the beginning see the possibility, even probability of defeat, which is more demoralizing to enthusiastic sport than any ethical disadvantage of a professional coach. Let each college abandon professional coaches and all will meet on perfectly fair grounds. Until then I sincerely hope Harvard will stick to the policy she has now adopted--and not allow her teams to meet others on unfair grounds, to be defeated year after year merely for the sake of theory...