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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There may, however, be a deeper-rooted reason for the restrained and reverential air of the collegians. It may be the final manifestation of Harvard indifference. In Boston theatres one often begins to sentimentalize over the closing clinch of hero and heroine, only to be awakened by the solo kisses of the cynical. Here in Cambridge we are beyond this stage. To a Harvard man a kiss is a kiss, and only deserves a yawn. We are not only indifferent about our work, but also about our entertainment. Cynicism has given place to boredom...
...course Miss Hayes was asked the inevitable question concerning Boston audiences. "I find them", she said, "most responsive, although hardly representative of the dignified. Puritanesque tradition so often associated with the town." At this particular moment a best friend and severest critic asked, just why the second act was so different one night last week...
...tendency to individualism weakens them. The boy who can feel that it is his Alma Mater bucking the line, and not he, is worth more on the gridiron than his fellow of even greater strength and speed who in his subconscious represents only himself. This explains why certain institutions, often with scanty or inferior material, have the habit of turning out winning football tean's. With all due salaams to Bill Roper, it explains why Princeton has that habit...
President Eliot's leadership was not due to his impressive personality nor to his office, although these were advantages of which he made good use. His insight and his judgment so often compelled respect that men came naturally to depend on him for guidance. And he had the rare quality of greatness that caused him to change his mind when he felt that his opponents were right, as they sometimes were...
...news of his death flashed out over the wires to all parts of the world. Columns were written, summing him up, pointing out his contributions to society, remarking on his greatness. There was some dissecting, much praising. But there was none of the soft sentimentality which so often surrounds the death of a man in the public eye. He had been too strong for that sort of emotion...