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...human weakness of preferring the bays and the plaudits of the hippodrome to the fruits of pale, cloistered erudition. Perhaps his name on the side of a silver bowl or graved on the pediment of a Winged Victory will prove a sufficient incentive to the aspirant for the uppermost batting average in scholarship...
When the plans for grouping the Freshman class in the new dormitories were first conceived, the idea uppermost in the minds of the sponsors of the movement was to effect a unification of the class during the first year in college. While the quartering of the first year men in three buildings is a means to this end yet the accomplishment of it depends largely upon the intermingling of the Freshmen themselves. Smith Halls men should meet more of their classmates in Standish and Gore, and similarly, more men in the last named buildings should come in closer contact with...
...series of open forums to be held during the current year. Monday's subject, "The Political Situation," may be taken as a fair criterion of the questions which will be used; they will be chosen with regard to the problems of public and College life which chance to be uppermost in our minds...
...been a conflict in a far away country, in a far away time, such an objection might be valid, but under the circumstances it is worthless, for such a course would not be a mere history of campaigns, and even if it were the military interest would not be uppermost. As matters stand, there will be a distinct gap in the view that Harvard gives us of our past, until a course on the Civil War and Reconstruction is offered...
...French believe that he has been highly influential in arousing among Americans an interest in France and promoting friendship between the two nations. President Lowell's efforts that have resulted in putting upon a permanent foundation the international exchange of eminent professors between the Sorbonne and Harvard were perhaps uppermost in the minds of those who conferred upon him this distinction...