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...efficient organization. It was all of that on Saturday last. Taking the Crimson team by and large, it suffers by comparison with Harvard elevens of the past few years in so far as it is weak in punting and drop-kicking and lacks the threat which Mahan was wont to provide. It also lacks the pristine ability to hold the ball and to shapter backfield defence. None the less, the Haughton system has realized fully upon the material with which it had to work, and has developed a good strong team out of green players who will be more formidable...
...appreciation in England, where tradition and time-honored custom have established a political and social inertia reasonably impervious to radical pressure, than in America, whose institutions are not similarly encrusted. However, herein lies a possible indication of our own proneness to talk and act nonsensically. College men especially are wont to search out the humorous elements in a serious situation, and their enjoyment in raillery is noticeably persistent. Harsh critics condemn this apparent distaste for fundamentals, and disparage the merits of an unregulated disregard of inward responsibility. If this sort of liberty is good for Englishmen, it must contain some...
...promise despite the fact of his lack of years and experience in great educational problems, as that experience is counted today. He is not a specialist in any one field of education, yet he takes a better plea for the cultural studies than the special pleaders are wont...
Inasmuch as the Cerole Francais in conclave assembled has with characteristic boldness decided to continue the ancient tradition by which its members are wont at this season to pit their prowess against that of the associated Teutons, it does now publicly hurl a gallic challenge to its friendly foes of the Deutscher Verein, inviting them to meet the as-yet-unconquered Cercle team anywhere and any day. It does, moreover, with excessive magnanimity not only offer to provide half of the liquid enticement customarily placed at first base, but also agrees to its being of entirely germanic nature. Wherefore...
...only catch cold like the rest of us, and--here the analogy becomes ineffective--be permitted to hibernate for a week in Stillman, we could take advantage of the miserable weather to stay indoors and fortify our minds against them. We need just a week's fortification. But they wont. So we must make the best of a disagreeable thing, realizing that it is tradition, that a preponderating if not appalling number of men have passed through it before, and that in two weeks and three days, for even the most unfortunate of us, life will be flowing once more...