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...second reason for the maintainence of the system of professional coaches--that is, to be on a par with our competitors--is of great importance from the standpoint of the undergraduate, and for that very reason should be given weight. One of the few opportunities an undergraduates has of witnessing the united spirit of the University is in athletic contests; and intercollegiate games, especially those with Yale, awake in him a sense of devotion to his Alma Mater which nothing else furnishes. There are few men whose spirit has not been stirred by witnessing the tremendous enthusiasm at a Yale...
Both from the standpoint of general policy and of undergraduate spirit, therefore, professional coaches seem desirable. SENIOR...
...defect of being unworkable. The judgment on practical affairs, political and social, of educated men who keep aloof from the conditions of practical life, is apt to be valueless to those other men who do really wage effective war against the forces of baseness and evil. From the political standpoint, education is a harm and not a benefit to the men whom it serves as an excuse for refusing to mingle with their fellows and for standing aloof from the broad sweep of our national life in a curiously impotent spirit of fancied superiority. The political wrong-headedness of such...
Some people say the church is losing its power, that we are losing our faith. However true that may be, from their standpoint, I venture to say that we are losing that mediaeval habit of dreaming of the celestial opportunities of day-after-tomorrow. Immortality as revealed by our faith, should mean a man's living now, not that he is going to live at some future time. I count it far better to deserve immortality and not to have it than to have it and not deserve...
...development of the Boston park system and has thus become acquainted with the practical side of municipal architectural problems. While at the Pan-American Conference last summer as special correspondent of the "Out-look" he was able to make a thorough study of several South American cities from the standpoint of landscape-gardening and architecture and in his lecture he will describe their recent advances along these lines. The lecture will be illustrated by stereopticon pictures...