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...estimated that 50,000 filed into the Palmer Stadium to-day to watch Yale and Princeton in their annual gridiron contest," he reads. "Yale took the field at five minutes of 2, and was greeted by salvos and applause and cheering from the Yale section. A minute later the Princeton team appeared, and this was a signal for the Princeton cohorts to rise as one man and give vent to their famous 'Undertaker's Song...
Older men of to-day are particularly interested in what college men, with their fresh point of view, are thinking, Newspapers, always quick to catch anything of "news value", are continually printing articles on undergraduate opinion. But at Harvard, expressions of opinion coming from the student body as a whole are all too few. Probably the press of activities, the large number of evening meetings and rehearsals--rather than the much-mooted Harvard indifference--make frequent large gatherings for the discussion of public questions more or less impracticable...
...session of Congress which starts to-day, coming as it does between two widely differentiated administrations, is of significance to every voter throughout the country. Though the session in itself will be a short one, there will be great opportunities for good work, and just as great opportunities for bad. The question is, which path will Congress follow...
Innovations at the Union have grown to be so frequent that most of them no longer excite comment. But to-day a test is put on "Harvard indifference" that will be hard to face, without flinching. Even the most callous must blanch at the thought--the Union is installing a system of push-buttons and bell-hops...
...time elections. If the present fashion calls for sarcasm, petty arguing and calling of names by rival candidates and rival newspapers, sly attacks in print, then perhaps a torch-light parade may be called old fashioned. At least men leave the daily papers by which the world of to-day is judged, fall into line and shout their opinions to the accompaniment of red fire and brass bands. There is something healthy about a torch-light parade compared with the campaign politics we have been hearing for weeks. It concerns voters, not politicians...