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...singers" Wagner 4. Tufts Songs a. Fight E. W. Hayes b. Spell It Out A. T. Williams c. Aren't You Glad? E. W. Newton 5. Largo, "From the New World" Symphony Dvorak 6. Spanish Dance, "Panaderos" Glazounov 7. Furlana from "La Gioconda" Ponchielli 8. Tufts Songs a. That Mascot P. B. Lewis b. Brown and Blue E. A. Newton c. Dear Alma Mater L. R. Lewis 9. Medley-Fantasia on Tufts Aira J. W. Morton 10. Waltz, "La Barcarolle" Waldteufel 11. Coronation March from "The Prophet" Meyerbeer
California seems to be with the Dollars, convinced of the world-conquering efficiency of the Dollar system. Presumably, they have with them the Administration, desirous to be quit of the embarrassing ship business. And, for mascot, they have the old man, his beard, his sign...
...have or not to have a mascot appears to be the foremost topic of the day on the Harvard campus. Harvard bemoans the fact that the followers of John Harvard have no bulldog, tiger, mule. goat, or bear to help the Crimson flash in triumph on the athletic field, and suggests that any sort of a screech, howl, back, growl, bray, bleat, or crow would suffice...
...editors of The Crimson, typifying the austerity and the dignity that supposedly enwraps the Harvard man, apathetically remarks (sic) in an editorial that the lack of a mascot is cause for satisfaction rather than for regret. In part it says: "While other colleges were adopting an entire menagerie of appropriate animals, Harvard remained aloof and chaste, refusing parentage of even so mild a nature. Yale became big brother to a bull pup: Princeton mothered a tiger; but Harvard was the father only to a gentle wish that some day this foolishness might cease...
Despite the chilly, highbrow attitude of The Crimson in scoring "the silly antics of mascots," is it not human to have a pet, to cherish some symbolic creature? And does not the horse-play of the rival mascots and their keepers afford the spectators much good, wholesome amusement in the midst of a tense athletic struggle when opposing bloods are apt to become warm? Poor Harvard has not even the memory of a nice, docile, little bear like "Touchdown" whose presence was so helpful in 1915 when the Big Red Team administered a drubbing to the Crimson eleven...