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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...best way to convince is by meeting on the floor in a frank and free discussion of the whole matter. The Forum this evening offers men who have anything to say on either side the chance to give expression to their convictions. The question cannot be decided once for all, but a lively discussion and the vote at the end will go far toward showing the trend of undergraduate opinion...
...snob. He did not want to know men so that in the future when they had made a success he could say, "Oh yes; I know him; he was in my class." He wanted to know men because of their worth; because their friendship might be an inspiration and help to him in College and out of it. But he only knows a limited circle--those in his club, a few who have lived near him and borrowed his books, a few men he has met casually during his four years. But most of his class is completely foreign...
...with the European war? I am aware indeed that even the word of honor of the holder of five university and college degrees and author of ten volumes of history will avail little against the leaden mass of ignorance and prejudice that weighs down our country. Permit me to say that I am the completes American both by descent and by bringing up, and that when I first went to Germany in 1884, after a year of the then wretched instruction in German at Harvard, I could speak scarcely a word of the language. I was in Germany from November...
...days when Yale used to win most of her games from Harvard, the Harvard sneer at Yale for making such a serious matter of her sports was very familiar. Harvard used to say, and try to believe, that play ought not to be made such grim work. Now that conditions are reversed, the attitude toward football, assumed or real, is reversed also. Yale takes some satisfaction in saying that Hinkey has made the game enjoyable to his men anyhow. On the other hand it is evident that Harvard now makes as serious a matter of its sports as Yale used...
Under the caption "Visitation Day," the Alumni Bulletin for February third has the following to say about the idea of keeping graduates in touch with the activities of the University...