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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...college; advantages which we are gradually learning to recognize. With the unifying of the classes in this manner, could come a broader use of the custom now being started by the Freshmen, as described by Dr. Davison in "Singing at the Freshman Dormitories." Choral singing, like athletics, is meant for the many, but is here confined to the few. The Glee Club meets a want, but only partially fills...
Following the example of Pennsylvania, Princeton, and the University, there will be three weeks of spring soccer practice at Yale, beginning April 9. As the Intercollegiate League games have been shifted from spring to fall, this work is meant to be preparatory to the regular season next autumn...
...exhibits of Italian paintings in Fogg Art Museum, announced in today's CRIMSON, is a typical example of the opportunities these men are missing. If they went to the exhibit they'd enjoy it; but they won't go because it never occurs to them that such exhibits are meant for them. Theirs is the most pernicious sort of indifference...
...suffered in modern times? So far as we have heard, nothing. Between the halves of a recent football game, a group of undergraduates enacted on the field a burlesque war-scene which must have struck many spectators as an exhibition of cynical taste and blunted feeling. Innocently enough meant, no doubt, it was far from an encouraging sight. It may be said--and we hope truly--that as Harvard, unlike many colleges, is in the midst of a great urban community, where every form of relief is highly organized, the undergraduates are doing their part as individuals in that community...
...teaching of the classic languages nowadays is merely the result of a heritage, a tradition, begun back in mediaeval times, when what teaching there was existed in church schools only, in which Latin was the official languages. We all know what it meant, some centuries ago, to have even the slightest education. If a man could translate a little Latin into his mother tongue, he could not be tried by a civil court for any crime. He could claim "benefit of clergy" and be tried in an ecclesiastical court--and the ecclesiastical court was very likely to pardon...