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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...years they advised him to drop out. Now please listen patiently. Of course we were heartbroken; so one morning I went over and talked with three men, and I said, "No, it is impossible that you can drop him out like that." Then I said, "What does D mean in Math" (This is now my main point, for Math. has always been his A study). The gentleman answered, "We go very swift at Harvard and probably your son cannot keep up the pace." Just think of such an answer. Then I said, "That E in Economics?" He said, "Well they...
Whether the agreement is to mean anything, depends entirely on the club members. Such a matter cannot be reduced to specific regulations. There are bound to be loop-holes. It rests with the clubs, whether these loop-holes will be used and the purpose of the agreement, in part, at least defeated. But the men in the clubs have given their words that they will see that the agreement is enforced and this should be sufficient to make it an effective measure in the campaign for class unity...
...undergraduate is a little inclined to be a hasty sportsman rather than a sport-loving sportsman,--to win first and consider the means afterwards. It is not any warp in his moral nature which makes him so, but rather a somewhat thoughtless impetuosity bred of what is known as "college spirit." A few call Dean Briggs an idealist, and mean it as a criticism, never considering that a little idealism is what college athletics need above all else. Dean Briggs is an idealist, and as such his attitude toward sport in general acts as a corrective of undergraduate impetuosity...
...final game in the scrub series will probably be played Monday afternoon between the Hard Guys and the Kreisters. A victory for the former will give them the series, but a defeat will mean a triple...
...Moreover, this fact necessarily makes for a different mental attitude on the part of the undergraduates. Their competition is far less strenuous. I do not mean that the play is less vigorous. But it tends to make the mere winning or losing of less relative importance. It is as though your best friend beats you in a game; you simply try to beat him the next time you play. But with us, if your greatest rival upsets your whole campaign, which has included a number of contests with other rivals in which considerable prestige is lost by defeat, the only...