Word: thoughtful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...regard to the exclusion from the CRIMSON office last June of the representatives of certain Boston papers, the writer implies that this step was taken by the CRIMSON Board because it was thought that the reports of the baseball celebration were the work of the Harvard correspondents. This was not the case. The editors understood perfectly at the time that none of the reports were written by students. As they then took care to expain, it was intended to show those papers which had been most conspicuous in the past for the publication of similar articles that the CRIMSON considers...
...believe you are going to do much more good than you may have hoped to do. You will help other people, of course; but not only those with whom you now come in contact, but the communities in which you live. You will get a knowledge of the thought and life of the masses of the people; you will get interior views of economic and social problems which will be of very real use in civic and political as well as philanthropic work; in that kind of political work which the disinterested citizens of this country must more generally undertake...
...smaller than that of any other class of recent years. The present candidates, numbering about thirty-five, are doing well enough, but there should be nearly twice as many from a class as large as Nineteen Hundred. There are surely more baseball men in the class and it is thought by the management that some are waiting for the outdoor work to begin before coming out. If there are any such men they should join the squad without further delay; for this preliminary cage practice in sliding and fielding is of real practical value in preparing them for out-door...
...preparing the way for evolution there are some things to be avoided and considered. Avoid urging changes foreign to our habits, customs and thought. It will do harm. Recognize the value of the cultivation of righteousness and morality. Strive to secure progress toward a better and nobler future by processes evolutionary rather than revolutionary, by appeals to reason rather than to prejudice. Be true to yourself, your University and your country...
...Sargent has always been willing to take charge of the room and its contents. Indeed, both he and Mr. Hemenway would long ago have been glad to give the matter the attention which it needs had they not thought that such action would mean more to graduates and undergraduates if undertaken by the latter...