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...John Koren will lecture in the Parlor of Phillips Brooks House at 8 o'clock this evening on "Wisdom and Unwisdom in Liquor Legislation." The lecture is to be delivered for the Liquor Problem Club, but will be open to all members of the University...
III.Choice in Reading.Haydon says in his diary that we learn nothing after twenty, and perhaps this is so far true that the impulse which leads us to wisdom or to unwisdom may be thus early given to the character. In books, as in the world, it seems to me not only prudent but delightful to keep the best company. By that means the brain becomes at last plenam semper et frequentem domum concursu splendidissimorum hominum, and our minds acquire that tone of good society which only such intercourse can give. Remember, that as all roads lead to Rome, so from...
...attempt here to discuss the wisdom or unwisdom of the New England rule; but we wish to show how the writer in Harper's Weekly, when claiming that the Athletic Committee has been inconsistent in this particular, has entirely missed the point...
...were left to themselves. The result everyone knows. Our teams lost all that years of previous work had gained; they have never recovered from the blow they received when certain men, sure that they knew all there was to know, refused to take the advice of their elders. The unwisdom of that old way is perfectly understood now. Graduates are urged to come out here and to give our teams the benefit of their experience. We have found that their help is necessary...
...whole policy of Harvard-that it is not her desire to advertise herself through any one of her organizations. The excuse given is hardly sound, for if the argument were consistently carried out intercollegiate athletics would be entirely abolished. In the first place we fail to see the unwisdom in allowing such an advertisement as Glee club trip. However much some may believe the contrary, a club such as that which went west last Christmas is no discreditable representative of Harvard dignity and excellence, and there is as yet no reason to believe that this year's club...