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...whom the day crowns four years of work, are, if anything, the greatest sufferers. It is high time something was done to make this important and impressive occasion popular with all Harvard people, as it was in an earlier day. The suggestion has been made that a large tent be erected in the quadrangle between Pierce and Langdell. Objections to this, however, are the expense and the fact that on a hot day the temperature under canvas would be scarcely bearable. Besides, unless the tent were enormous, the remedy to the present situation would be only one of degree...
...then be pardoned a little timely exultation in showing our appreciation of the efforts of the coaches and men who have brought about these results. College athletics are not the main tent; they are properly the side show of college life; but the side show is often very important, if only to set off and strengthen the main attractions. "Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are," says the physician. Similarly one might say, "tell me how well you play at manly contests, and I will tell you how well you work intellectually...
...Headquarters, Hotel Buckminster, Boston. June 23.--10.00, sports with 1905 on Soldiers Field; luncheon at Newell Boat House; 7.00, dinner at Hotel Somerset, Boston. June 24.--12.00 to 1.30, spread in Stoughton 7 or in tent behind Stoughton...
...spend many hours in his rooms reading; the temptation to spend most of his time, after actually dissipating it, in an endless round of temporary interests is less; there is often a tendency among students, as President Wilson has said, to substitute the side-shows for the main tent. We would not lose "Harvard University," which is the definitive reply to the taunt of "Harvard indifference"; but it must be recognized that too little reading is done by most men. And without doubt a solid foundation of good reading is the best thing one can carry away from his four...
...charges are $10 a week, which includes board, lodging in a tent, laboratory fees and instruction. The work requires the concentrated use of all the working day. The daily schedule is as follows: rising horn, 6 o'clock; breakfast, 6.25; working hours...