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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...characteristic of Harvard life," thus manifesting "the truly patriotic and national spirit which animates the school," but it was to have been hoped that no delegation of Harvard men could conceive that they were doing anything but misrepresenting Harvard by competing with other colleges in a demonstration of that sort. Why should not the Harvard delegation enter the parade simply as Harvard men and gentlemen, and not depend on dressing themselves up like monkeys to distinguish their party in the line of march? If it is thought that a uniform of some sort is desirable, the ordinary black caps...
...University. For many years the football and baseball teams have been more than self-supporting, but the other teams have relied upon subscriptions to pay off part of their yearly deficit, and the credit balance every year has sooner or later been used for permanent improvements of some sort. The subscription business, however, has become a nuisance. The Graduate Treasurer's reports show that the number of University teams which collect subscriptions has increased from two in 1898 to seven in 1904. Receipts from other sources have steadily increased during this time, and there is no reason to think...
...months and the disproportionate exaltation of the football hero in the college world. "The football hero," he says, "is useful in a society of young men if he illustrates generous strength and leads a clean life; but his merits of body and mind are not of the most promising sort for future service out in the world. The alert, nimble, wiry, tough body is, for professional or business purposes in after life, a better one than...
...learn is the difference between practising generously a liberal art and driving a trade or winning a fight, no matter how. Civilization has long been in possession of much higher ethics than those of war, and experience has abundantly proved that the highest efficiency for service and the finest sort of courage in individual men may be accompanied by, and indeed spring from, unvarying generosity, gentle manliness, and good will...
...elevated the public taste. It even has a Christmas story, Mr. Hagedorn's "The Pastor of Wenkendorf," which is agreeable, climactic and might well appear in the Saturday Evening Post. The old Advocate had little satirical verses.--"I am going to the Annex, Sir, she said," and that sort of thing,--the new Advocate includes a little idyl, "The Maid and the Shepherd Boy," by Mr. Gebhardt. The old Advocate had a clever "Proctoure's Tale," quite in the vein of Chaucer,--the new Advocate has "The Little Show Girl," by Mr. Cooper, a sincere and truthful sketch...