Word: thinks
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Suppose that Harvard is permitted to play but four or five games on each schedule. We do not think that this is an exaggerated statement of the contemplated move. What then will be the result? We shall be at an overwhelming disadvantage, we shall be unable to compete with any measure of success, and finally intercollegiate athletics at Harvard, the greatest binding and unifying force we have, will tend...
...support to their fullest extent the only event of the year of its kind. There are still very many men in the class who could easily afford to join the Union and come to the dance, but who are unwilling to do so chiefly because they do not think that the Union dance will be sufficiently amusing. Of course it won't be amusing if they are determined that it won't be. The Union dance should above all be a class affair, and every man in the class should be willing to help to the best of his ability...
...measure this article is sound. The men who offer the strongest inspirations of our academic life are those to whom America must look for the advancement of its scholarship. But we think that both the Nation and Mr. Wister, in urging their point, have neglected the position of the undergraduate. Their ideal is that of progress in unexplored regions of literature, art and science. Ours is the development of "second-string" men, who, while profiting themselves by the words of eminent authorities, will pave the way for a gradual improvement in real scholarship. To our undeveloped minds this ideal seems...
...years ago two class-mates of mine "Out" for the Lampoon, used regularly to devote a portion of each day, rain or shine, to helping each other think up jokes. Apparently times have not changed, not the ways of candidates or editors in them. Yet jokes, like poets, are born, not made. Humor means, if anything, an irrepressible, sensitiveness to incongruities, and contradictions in things, unspirited, be it added, by any immediate desire to correct them. Its expression is a revelation to itself, a, sudden unexpected sparkle and flash refracted from some absurdity. College humor, moreover, should be provincial...
...founded for the search of truth and freedom, and that in this spirit the students of Semitic descent were received. The Jewsih race, he said, had a history piteous and full of pathos, and that it remembered three great captivities and times when it had had freedom only to think and hope, and but that now in this land it had found freedom both physical and intellectual. he said that the Jews had chosen and excellent place in this University for a seed ground for the development and spreading of their ideals, and that although their number was small, they...