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...view of the fact that only two men are lost from last year's team, the general outlook for a successful season seems bright, provided the team does not get into a rut and allow last year's mid-season slump to occur again...
...eminence had always been attributed to our acknowledged leadership in academic affairs. Certainly Harvard undergraduates are no less scholarly today than in the past; but they have lost sight of the splendid training that participation in an intercollegiate debate affords. Debating at Harvard is in a dangerous rut; its supporters are no longer representative of every side of Harvard activity; they are rather drawn from a limited class, whose interests have been with debating from the start...
...only. But when we are rid of the corruption we will be confronted with a condition of things in which the patriotism of every citizen will be tested. Each man must do his part or the strength of the independent organization will weaken and fall back into the old rut...
...Chief," is the most meritorious prose contribution, for it has ingenuity of plot and facility in expression. "The Prodigal Uncle," is a purported humorous tale, in dramatic form; it is somewhat too forced to seem anything but artificial. The other stories are above the average, and out of the rut of the ordinary undergraduate short story...
...best coach for eights in England, the home of good rowing. He came at the request of Captain Goodrich of the University crew, and with the approval of the Athletic Committee and the leading graduates interested in rowing, to help the Harvard crew out of the rut into which it had fallen. He was a man of great natural enthusiasm and charming manner, the College and the rowing men were delighted with him and went at the task with renewed hope and vigor...