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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Harvard was a team on Saturday in every sense of the word, and not eleven star players...
...submitted for discussion: they all deal with matters which concern "the weal of Harvard";--two are claimed by athletics; two by matters more strictly academic (not to say pedagogic); and the remaining two deal with what might be called the "social" questions of our College life, using the word in its broader sense. They are all "live topics", and should stimulate the mind--if they do not swell the purse--of every student who enters the competition. Last year's contest produced much food for thought, and there is no reason why this year's should not be equally fruitful...
...issue. There is also what seems to me a typical utterance of the stand-patter,--a graceful statement of well worn and out worn Republican platitudes by ex-Governor Long. There is also, just why one does not know, in this otherwise admirably serious and pertinent number a lurid word collection from the pen of Mr. Thomas W. Lawson, chiefly sound and fury signifying nothing. Ferhaps the article is offered as material for instructors in English A, who may utilize it to show those who would write English how not to do it. The two concluding numbers of the issue...
Whenever we hear the word "forum," we have a sudden vision of Cicero standing in the Roman Forum, wearing a flowing Roman toga, and making the speeches which were the bane of our lives a few years ago; we never imagine that the forum is a present day possibility. But men acquainted with English universities, especially Oxford, realize that the forum does not belong to historical Rome alone; it is today a great force in training university men in thoughtful discussions of important topics of the day. An impressive list is made when the names of the greatest Englishmen...
...veiled Senussi's word shall...