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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Gentlemen, I have not come here to be pleasant and agreeable, but to point out where the Harvard spirit is lacking and how it can be changed so that each may do his duty in a way and spirit different from the past...
Call it by what name we will a spirit of individualism or indifference does exist among the students in this University and has existed for some time past. Graduates have come back to Cambridge from time to time and have scoffed at the idea. The fact is they have not known the truth, probably no one does realize it fully outside of the student body. Harvard students of today are enthusiastic at bottom. Their affection for their Alma Mater is as strong as it ever was, but they are not so willing to show it as they were twenty years...
...nearly every great institution in the country this University is represented by some instructor who received his degree here. There is one form of instruction, however, and a very important one, which Harvard graduates have not taken up, and by this we mean in struction in athletics. Within the past few years athletics have gradually come to be considered an essential part of a man's college training, and in most of the colleges regular athletic departments have been established. In order to fill the position of an instructor in such a department completely a man should have...
During the past week the increased interest in debating lately manifested by members of the Sheffield Scientific School has culminated in the formation of a new society-The Sheffield Debating Club. This organization is the first of its kind in this department of the University, although the advisability of its formation has been under discussion for some time. The movement not only means the broadening and advancement of that department, but will contribute largely toward strengthening and maintaining interest in debating throughout the entire University...
...unversity crew has been rowing at the harbor for the past few days, and their improvement has accordingly been much more rapid than before. The freshman crew is still at work in the tank at the gymnasium, as they have not as yet sufficiently mastered the rudiments of the stroke to enable them to row in a shell. The candidates are on the average lighter in weight than those of last year, and have not as yet shown very great promise...