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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...defeat of the bill, which is due mainly to the activity of several of the leading Massachusetts educators, including President Eliot, President Hopkins of Williams, President Harris of Amherst, and President Pritchett of Technology, means that the past policy of the Commonwealth to exempt public educational institutions from any taxation on their property will be continued, and that the expenses of these institutions will not be increased by this unnecessary...
...what purports to be "a deliberate critical review of Harvard's (athletic) course for twenty years," Mr. Caspar Whitney has sought to explain and comment on the upheaval in our athletics during the past year in the May "Outing," which has just appeared. Had Mr. Whitney taken the trouble to ascertain the facts of the situation more carefully, his opinions as an impartial observer would carry more weight with those of us, at least, who are more or less familiar with conditions. When he says that soon after the Yale football game last fall, the Governing Boards appointed an investigating...
...always slandering of one sport or another, always some official or specially appointed committee of this, or that, or the other branch of athletics. There is always some unpleasant reflection on sport in the morning papers with the Cambridge date line." And how true those statements are. In the past we graduates and undergraduates, athletes and non-athletes--have not pulled together in athletics. We have too often used petty disagreements for wedges to force apart our common interests. Mr. Whitney attributes this lack of unity to the "adoration of the unbridled ego." Perhaps he is right, but we think...
...these criticisms have been of the past. Mr. Whitney has not seen the democratic spirit which has passed over the College during the last few years, a spirit which is spread among the graduates more widely with each graduating class. Our past is full of hard-earned lessons, but never has the athletic situation been more satisfactory than it is today...
During the past two or three weeks there has been much general singing in the Yard dormitories, and this tendency found its best expression on one evening this week, when the Seniors living in Holworthy came together on the steps of the building and sang during the hour immediately after dinner. The singing was entirely spontaneous and had the enthusiasm that comes with spontaneity; and it was doubtless thoroughly enjoyed by the men who took part. It seems to us that no better way could be found to spend the hour after dinner, during pleasant spring evenings, than by some...