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...drunkenness has increased much even since "that evil day" when the Volstead Act was passed. The stories which "old grads" love to tell, the cartoons which Lampy printed long ago, the accounts of celebrations after former football games, all seem to indicate that the flowing bowl was as freely partaken of then...
...fruits during the Freshman year. Colleges which have tried it have found that a far greater number of their students have turned out for athletics during their last three years with compulsion during the first year, than under a strictly laissez-faire policy. Men who have never partaken in any sports or games in their school days will be drawn into them in college and will be able to enjoy them and profit by them throughout life. The spectacle of clever and talented men needlessly stricken with physical disability in the prime of life, so that all their...
...world. Who is there now who thinks that the greatest good which might come to us from this war is great prosperity? Who is there who conceives of Europe and her agony as the woes of another planet, to be scientifically investigated and discussed, but never to be partaken? Who is there who trusts to the Monroe doctrine the wide sea, and the inherited flintlock over the fireplace, to keep us from the ambitions and intrigues of martial peoples? Who is there who thinks as he thought before, and as previous generations have thought before during all our national life...
Harvard College has been made by the generosity and sacrifice of men of former years; it will continue to develop chiefly as the men who have partaken of its benefits do, in turn, their part to enrich...
Professor Marsh delivered his second lecture on the beginnings of modern poetry in Sever 11 last evening, A week ago, he spoke on the poetry of Provence; last evening. on the poetry of France proper. Both Provence and France had partaken of the civilizations of Greece and Rome, but France did not completely fall under their influence. Then, under Chalemagne, the interest in literature was once more awakened, the new culture showed itself independent of the old, and was so much the fresher and more original than the Provencial poetry...