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Unfortunately, however, the American student himself offers a great obstacle by his attitude toward every man who speaks English with the semblance of an accent. With one exception, notably in connection with the Cosmopolitan Club, undergraduates adopt a supercilious or at best thoughtless attitude of aloofness toward foreigners. They often do not realize that men who cross the seas to study in a strange country are usually more filled with enthusiasms, ideas, and ideals than many of the uninteresting and uninterested men who attend college because it is the thing...
...undergraduate is a little inclined to be a hasty sportsman rather than a sport-loving sportsman,--to win first and consider the means afterwards. It is not any warp in his moral nature which makes him so, but rather a somewhat thoughtless impetuosity bred of what is known as "college spirit." A few call Dean Briggs an idealist, and mean it as a criticism, never considering that a little idealism is what college athletics need above all else. Dean Briggs is an idealist, and as such his attitude toward sport in general acts as a corrective of undergraduate impetuosity...
...fires started. The commonest cause of fires in the dormitories was the falling of live coals out of the grate piled too high to keep the fire during some long absence of the occupant of the room. Many fires have been started in the College buildings by students' thoughtless practice of throwing matches and the ends of cigars or cigarettes into waste-paper baskets; but these sudden flames are as a rule put out quickly, because the chances are that the fire will start while the careless student is still in his room...
...explained. True, the public cannot know these facts, but the writer of your communication could if he would. And the question of Harvard and the Press has been discussed at length; it is not germane to the present question, viz that of placing a false construction on the somewhat thoughtless and wholly non-signifying, as far as their opinions are concerned, outbreaks of noise by the restless undergraduate by men who should have more regard for fact. As well construe the present vogue for felt hats as a sign that "Harvard adopts the Roosevelt...
...essential in order that the work of these officers can be effectively performed that these two blanks be filled out and returned at the earliest opportunity. In the past class Secretaries have been seriously handicapped because of thoughtless and unnecessary delay on the part of certain of their classmates in complying with this request. It is in order to avoid a similar experience that the Class Committee is making this early appeal. Only the hearty co-operation of the entire class in this matter will make it possible for the officers to do their work successfully...