Word: settings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Davison is abundantly able to set before the class the value of the Jubilee as a musical endeavor. A foreign critic after a brief tour through this country reported to his audience that the Americans were birds of beautiful plumage but without song. However figurative this remark may be, its literal interpretation is not without truth...
...often influenced by personal likes and dislikes. His prejudices once formed, he doesn't want to read arguments or hear speeches to the contrary. But if he can go to a meeting where his own leaders are arrayed against an intelligent opposition, he cannot help hearing facts which will set him thinking for himself...
...much so -- and I present this as a thought, merely -- that when we adopt for the athletic field a system of endeavor less serious in its demands and less exalted in its obligations are we not operating to defeat the primary purposes of essential university work as already set forth? In other words, does not a boy, whether he be a Varsity man or a member of a class or whatever team, receive moral and physical benefit from any game in which he may play in proportion as he is taught and inspired to play that game to the limit...
...seems pitiable that in a University such as Harvard, a new publication of evident literary merit cannot be brought to light without a most unfair attack being made upon it by certain narrow minded editors of the established literary organ. History teaches that when satire is used, decay has set in. Surely dishonest competition, anonymously conducted, discloses a moribund state of affairs. How can a small group of men who have failed in keeping alive Harvard's undergraduate literary traditions presume to sneer out of existence a publication of real literary promise? It is merely another attempt by the "vested...
...March 15 University A and B, and Freshman 1, 2 and 3 will have the first Saturday practice of the year. The following week there will be short spins between the members of each set, and practice twice on the last day of the term. None of the crews are to practice regularly during the vacation, however. Only seven crews are now rowing on the Charles but it is expected that the entire squad will be on the river by the first of next week...