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Professor von Dobschuts writes on "Die Harvard-Zurufe;" and it is safe to say that our cheer has never before been so learnedly treated. He compares it with analogous customs recorded of the synod held in Rome in 499 A.D., and with the organized cheers with which the people greeted the Emperors in mediaeval Byzantium. The performances of our cheer-leaders at the Yale game he finds interesting as making more creditable the records of these ancient instance. A propos of his questions as to the age and origin of the Harvard cheer, the Advocate might well take a hint...
...clear from this morning's communication on the Gymnasium question that there was a good deal of truth in the argument that personal attention is necessary to collect pledges. At least that seems to be the feeling of representative undergraduates. What the writers of this letter say is still more gratifying, however, in that it shows that the College at large is still actively interested in a new Gymnasium. We have not yet had a satisfactory reason for not appointing a Freshman canvassing committee to find out whether or not the enthusiasm extends to all classes...
...will in the end fall quite involuntarily into the use of his special parlor accomplishment in his daily work. Moreover, this is an argument which could he applied with even more deadly effect to a dozen other courses which the College advertises. As for a second argument which says that English Composition should not be elective for Sophomores on the ground that literary geniuses are born and cannot be made with a hundred years of teaching in a class-room, it is enough to say that it is no argument at all, since College courses should be planned with...
Nevertheless to say that "the opinions of the professional critics are no longer of any worth even as individual opinions," and that "as it (Professional musical criticism) now exists it is utterly useless", is to imply the non-existence of the type --lamentably rare, it is true--of well-trained, level-headed professional musical critic--a manifest injustice to the few distinguished men without whom the profession would indeed be discredited...
...Cambridge Social Union is one of the successes which reflect credit on Harvard; the facts which we print this morning prove it. Its forty-two years of active usefulness to Cambridge, its fifty-six courses, to say nothing of its libraries and its social aspects, all may be pointed to with pride. It is Harvard's privilege to have played a part in the growth of the Social Union. The curious fact is that few of us realize, until some such figures as today's are seen, what a world of interests surrounds the College and is known only...