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...teams, it cannot but deplore such an insane demonstration as that which was occasioned by the playing of the Harvard songs in Memorial Hall last Friday night. Though due, doubtless, to the extreme tension preceding the Princeton game, it is nevertheless inexcusable. Enthusiasm should never be allowed wholly to supplant reason; it has its proper place and time when displayed in a proper degree. Gentlemanly and rational conduct is always required of Harvard men, and enthusiasm which is destructive to furniture and productive of riot is not to be tolerated even in support of a winning team. While we expect...
...people to veto any undesirable legislation. Our legislatures no longer represent the people but the trusts who have obtained great power. The initiative and referendum will put an end to the inefficiency of the legislature. The initiative and referendum are intended to supplement the legislature and not to supplant it. We would urge the adoption of the initiative and referendum even where inefficiency and corruption is not rife, as a potential preventative of any future corruption...
Brooks House has to contend with conditions which are met with in few, if any, other colleges. The Union supplies the undergraduates with a common meeting place, and its reading rooms supplant the usual function of the religious society's library. No glamor is attached to the work carried on in Brooks House, as is the case elsewhere, so that many fail to notice its existence. Although its activities are many and varied, they are in the main connected with social service work outside of the University, upon which branch of its administration it is to be congratulated. The excellent...
Since, however, it is necessary to have some method of testing prescribed reading, if it is to be anything more than a farce, it seems desirable that the system of conferences and classroom papers already extensively in use should be further extended, and should, so far as possible, supplant this mechanical writing of unprofitable reports. A paper written in class has at least the merit of demanding some general knowledge of the subject, and an oral conference serves both to clarify and fix the ideas of the student, and to assure the instructor that the student is taking an intelligent...
...closing, Professor Rotch said that it was not safe to prophesy as to the future, but this might be said, that neither the dirigible balloon nor the aeroplane will ever supplant our present means of transportation...