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...time will have reached its most critical stage. The men who are actively interested in Harvard will have already contributed. Those who have lost touch, who have settled far away from Cambridge where the name Harvard is scarcely heard, will be the men on whom the Endowment Drive must look for aid in the future. What better way to stir old memories in these distant graduates than to send an undefeated Harvard football team through their country! -- a team which has beaten Yale! The psychological effect should be tremendous. For, after all, the eleven will represent the College...
...team 'came back.' And the fact that the team, in the last five minutes of play fought their way to a tie shows the stuff they are made of." Relative to the Yale game he said, "I was greatly impressed by the Yale team, their strength and power. But look at that eleven," (turning to the men on the stage). "No man can say that Yale will outfight us on Saturday...
Coach Slattery, in his one week with the nine, has had a very good opportunity to look over the material with which he will have to deal next spring...
Having heard so much lately the use of the word "soviet," I decided to look it up and find out its meaning. I was rather surprised to find that it meant nothing more than "committee," and I wondered why it had never been applied to our Congressional manner of doing business. Another translation of the word, making it mean "conference," made me wonder why, since they use the word so freely, the Boston "Transcript" and the New York "Times" do not speak of our present Industrial Soviet at Washington. Perhaps the word is reserved for those conferences or councils which...
...money does not come from our pockets; liberality takes on another aspect when it means increased taxation. Much of the present unrest is due to the mistaken attitude of large groups towards the government. War time salaries, lavish expenditures for material, and railroad concessions have caused these people to look upon Congress as one vast mint anxious to rid itself of money. Surely additional gifts will cause the strengthening of this alarming belief...