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When we are tempted to sneer at certain Yale antiquities, such as compulsory chapel and an old-fashioned cut system, it is well to notice some other respects in which we can afford to learn from Yale. One of these is the midwinter Alumni Day which has become a young tradition at New Haven. Princeton has watched its operation and thought it good enough to adopt; the University may well give it some consideration...
...opened your number of April tenth and inadvertently read the editorial eastigating the "Nation" for its judgment in referring to our super-finishing schools for defective flappers as the intellectual centers of America. Heartily as I agree with you in this criticism, I must take exception to your closing sneer in which you called the editors of the "Nation" and the "New Republic" "kept idealists...
...yield neither to Senator Borah nor any other man in admiration of the farewell address and of the great Fathers of the Republic, but I would not use them as a cover for present party politics. Never did I sneer at the farewell address; but I believe that the greatness of Washington was due to his looking the facts of his day in the face and determining his conduct thereby, instead of by utterances, however wise, of a hundred and fifty years before. I will trust the American people not to mistake short-signtednss for patriotism or narrow-mindedness...
Fairness is a good policy even in college journalism. The unnamed editorial writer in the CRIMSON seems to sneer at the bad fortune with which the University debating teams have met. It would be a safe wager that this writer has never attempted to participate in a debate, and he probably did not even attend the debate which brought on his laughable and amusing attempt at a display of immature wit. Does he know how much work a debate entails? Is it any worse to lose a debate than to be defeated in an athletic contest? Would he likewise suggest...
...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 interest" to stifle literary activity in the University...