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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Actually, a good deal of the protest that is made, is to be credited to Providence people who want to see the Harvard stars in action, and who do not realize that the term "substitute" does not mean here what it does elsewhere. Certainly one who has followed the game here could not propose seriously that the Harvard line-up was "scrub" or "second string" in any sense other than that more than eleven first class men cannot play at once...
...poem on a subject or subjects annually to be chosen and announced by a Committee of the Department of English," will this year be given for a poem suggested by the subject, National Defense. A competitor may interpret this subject as he pleases, for it is not intended to mean only defense of the United States. He is expected to choose his own title under the general topic. Each poem should not exceed 50 lines, should bear an assumed name, and should be accompanied by a sealed letter containing the true name of the writer and superscribed with the assumed...
...mean that, frightened into instant action by Advocate admonitions the undergraduate should go to sleep tonight and wake up tomorrow with a precise plan of procedure in life. The call of duty, they tell us, is not blasted into our ears at dawn on our twenty-first birthday. There was a boy who kept awake in his bed on the night before his twenty-first birthday until one minute past twelve, when, leaping from his covers, he startled the household by rushing through the dwelling and shouting at the top of his lungs: "There's a man in the house...
...Mother Advocate says, let us choose a vocation as soon as possible. Procrastination, moreover, will mean not only the loss of an early start up the ladder of success, but it will mean something worse: it will mean the loss of that tremendous stimulus of having a clear destination, a one, single aim. No matter whether the choice be butcher or baker, or candlestick-maker, it is good to determine as soon as possible upon a permanent or even upon a temporary purpose in life. The choice is not only a means; it is an end in itself. E. HOWELL...
...wild dash for the gridiron and the rollicking snake dance" are spoken of as if such exuberance were obviously unsportsmanlike, as if there were something mean in thus "rubbing it in." On the contrary, it is a legitimate effervescence of the joy of victory. The defeated not only expect it, but they feel disappointed if the subtle compliment be omitted. "Is the query. Doubtless more than one Harvard undergraduate,-- and at least one,--was obliged to apologise to his companion last Saturday when the expected serpentine failed to materialize...