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College Spirit is a curse when it prompts a student to stoop to any dishonorable act in order to uphold the prestige of his school. To place money on a game because of a misconceived idea that loyalty to team and college demands it, is a fatal error common among college men. Gambling on the athletic contest, even when prompted by an overflow of zeal, is an evil just the same as the game of chance conducted in a dive...
...present at the meeting. Doubtless this particular news item, for obvious reasons, will be copied by various newspapers in different parts of the country and read by thousands, perhaps millions, of Americans with mingled feelings of disapproval, of shame, and of regret,--regret that Harvard College could stoop so low as to hiss her most distinguished alumnus...
...willing to do anything necessary, who is not ashamed to turn his hand to the most menial tasks is humble. In the life of Christ we find perfect humility. He was willing to wash his disciples' feet because it was a courtesy which no one else would stoop to offer. Finally, Christ gave His life for us, for He did not feel that though He was perfect He was too good to sacrifice Himself for us. Perfect humility is a beautiful thing and well worth having...
...regard to speculation, the committee will take every precaution. For every seat sold, the name of the purchaser has been kept; the committee know exactly who should be in the different seats, and all suspicious cases will be investigated. The fact that there are some men who will stoop to make money by deliberately perverting the whole purpose of such an affair, cannot be spoken of by the ordinary man with anything but the strongest terms of denunciation. Such men, if there be such, are unworthy to have even an existence at Harvard. In the second place, it ought...
...sale at prices ranging from fifty cents upwards. To say nothing of this abuse of a privilege, which, in itself, is an insult to the members of the Confernnce Francaise, such a transaction can be called nothing else than dishonest. That a man who calls himself a gentleman should stoop to such low means of adding a few dollars to his purse, is inconceivable. We would warn the students against such men. It is to be hoped that their speculative scheme may prove unsuccessful...