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...football team has raised the physical standard of the Freshman class during the last two years. But there are a great many men for whom neither football nor any of the other sports offer any incentive to physical development. Such men can not be allowed to go through College without a development of body, as well as of mind, and, it seems to me, one of the plans suggested by Dr. Sargent should be immediately adopted...
...present system is faulty because it puts too great a burden upon the judges. To ask a board of judges to listen to forty-seven speeches of five minutes each without any recess or interruption is putting a physical strain upon them which is likely to impair their judgment. The physical strain in the last trial was so great that one of the judges was unable to remain until all the men had spoken, giving his judgment only on the men whom he had heard. Those who have acted as judges are agreed that the best results cannot be expected...
...talk about "favoritism," "indifference," and the other absurd explanations of Harvard's lack of success in intercollegiate contests is a mass of nonsense. The radical difficulty which lies back of the whole situation is that undergraduates are left to do as best they may without organized conservative advice from older heads. Harvard's competitors have today systems of permanent supervision, supplied by shrewd, mature men. Harvard has nothing of this beyond what is supplied by the scattering efforts of individuals...
...supervision we do not mean interference. Graduates can assist without causing friction. The present plan is then a welcome one. Harvard, owing to peculiar conditions needs organizing more than any other college, and she may well be grateful to those who are making this earnest effort to provide the machinery...
HARVARD CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.- Meeting tonight at 6.45 in Holden Chapel. Leader, Mr. J. E. Hubbard. Subject: James II, 17, "Faith Without Works is Dead." Hereafter the regular meetings will be held Wednesday evenings instead of Thursdays...