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...this a time for any of us to attempt to excuse ourselves for refusing to do our duty by pointing to others who are not doing their duty. The fact that someone else is a scoundrel and a slacker is the poorest kind of a reason why I should be a scoundrel or a slacker. In fact, if there are others who are doing less than their share, that is the best reason in the world why I should do more than my share. That is the only way in which we shall ever get enough done to win this...
...expected this year that Harvard will match last year's efficiency in the final games, regardless of results. Nevertheless, it should be remembered that last year a great Harvard team, playing the poorest of football, was beaten by Cornell. It is the writer's opinion that it will not be difficult for Harvard this year to play a better game against the Ithancans than was shown by the 1915 eleven in that game...
...conditioning the men. Spring practice opened with full blast in February, when indoor work was commenced for the university and freshman squads. The size of the university squad was about the same as usual, but a greater number of freshman candidates reported than ever before. Weather conditions were the poorest of all years this season, and the indoor work was continued until April, which was the earliest time that the crews were able to get on the harbor for out door practice...
Basket-ball was played at a loss for the first time in ten years. Although Columbia was represented by one of the poorest teams in the history of basketball on Morningside Heights the reason for the loss is ascribed to a larger number of memberships in the athletic association, entitling each member to free admittance to all games, rather than to smaller crowds at the games. The report is not the complete one for the year. It covers only the period to date. By the end of the baseball season that sport will have netted a considerable sum, although...
...love to tell of Harvard, the real Harvard, as I found her; the generous Harvard, the liberal Harvard, the sympathetic Harvard, the democratic Harvard, the Harvard of opportunities for the poorest lad in all the land. This is the real Harvard as I came to know her and to love her. The Harvard, the least affected with the false spirit of wealthy aristocracy and snobbery, and the most democratic of our great universities in America; the Harvard, where any poor boy without wealth or social distinction can go, trusting only in the ambition of an honest heart and noble purpose...