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Harvard has long been endeavoring to make some improvement over this state of affairs, but, it must be admitted, without great success. Each year there are thrust upon the English department from three to four hundred students who are sadly incapable of writing their own language well. With this mass of unformed material to develop, the wonder is not that much of the undergraduate English remains unsatisfactory, but rather that any of it is ever really satisfactory. It is to be hoped that the preparatory schools will before long come to the aid of the college, and build...
President and Fellows of Harvard College. Meeting at No. 50 State St., Boston...
President and Fellows of Harvard College. Meeting at No. 50 State St., Boston...
...evils of today we can trace to the lives of luxury led by some and to the carelessness of duty in others. If we are inclined to smile at the stern religion of the Puritans let us remember that on the firm rock of their faith was founded our state and our college, and that they have stood firm through two hundred and fifty years of controversies and trouble...
...football are so strong that so long as there are other opportunities for athletic training, the present game should be given up. However one may disagree with the President, it cannot be denied that his attitude is a legitimate one and although on some points, such as "the state of mind of the spectators at a hard fought football match," he seems to be ignorant of the actual facts, there is throughout his remarks on the subject a sincerity which adds greatly to their force...