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...impossible for any Harvard man, who has seen the play, not to regard it as a false and absurd representation of Harvard life, which does not even plead the excuse of being a travesty. There is abundant proof that the play has been accepted as authentic in many of the large cities in this country. It was applauded at Yale...
...Sargent also read a paper on "Strength Tests and Inspection of Instruments." Dr. W. G. Anderson of Yale made a timely address on "Prevention of Athletes Entering Competitions in a Crippled Condition." Two special committees were formed, one to consider the relation of gymnastics to athletics and to plead with the athletic captains for a better understanding with the trainers and athletes, and the other to consider the treatment of organic troubles of students...
Half the troubles of mankind come from an ignorance which consists less in not knowing things, than in wilfully ignoring known things. Certain great political and social plagues exist for which men of thought should be an antidote. What I plead for today is the wider, nobler, unpaid service which an educated man renders to society simply by being thoughtful and by helping others to think. Passion, as well as ignorance, is dangerous. Educated men should oppose war when avoidable but when it becomes inevitable they should be its most vigorous advocates. No man ought to be too much educated...
...genius. In the first place she had to suffer the contempt with which her grandmother treated her mother, who was a common work-woman. Here we see in George Sand the first seed of revolt against social institutions. Secondly, she was unhappy in her marriage and it was to plead her cause that she first became a writer...
...come forward to make the exception. The state of her crew finances is very low. Not only does this indicate deplorable selfishness on the part of the individual members, but a class spirit which has no place in Harvard. It is a weak excuse when asked for money to plead indebtedness and then openly to indulge in extravagant amusements. There were thirty-five men in Ninety-five last year who subscribed twenty-five dollars apiece. Ninety-six has just six men who have had the spirit to help their crew along to that extent. Comparatively few can subscribe...