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Additional interest is centred this year in the dinner owing to the Boylston Professorship which Professor Copeland will now hold, following the resignation of Dean Briggs. The celebration of his promotion is expected to add new zest to the dinner, and to the reading which Professor Copeland will give tonight before the members of the Harvard Club. He has the distinction of being the only man in the world who has his own Alumni Association...
...experiments in cheering, since vocal enthusiasm is only a by-product of interest in the game; and "chamber-expositions" of cheering are hardly a satisfactory test of merit in the field. Any group of vigorous and agile young men, who attack the problem with sufficient intelligence, numbers, and zest, can swing a favorable crowd into their own enthusiasm. The present corps of captains has in general, these qualifications, with the added advantages of undergraduate respect and actual experience of playing. It is extremely doubtful that any competitive system, however well planned, has greater potentialities than the present arrangement...
Congress ought to declare a closed season on all Army and Navy officers. Ridiculing their pronunciamentos has become so common a sport of late that the zest has quite gone out of it. Yesterday's news, however, contained tow examples, far better even than usual, of the strange theories that result when the soldier takes to statesmanship...
...psychology of college men must be faced frankly: their most strenuous efforts are put forth only when they are convinced that there will be some general recognition of their efforts. Like Cicero they seek fame. They are young and combative, full of zest and of a tremendous will to excell, but being young they need the encouragement of applause. The trustees and awarders of prizes and scholarships and degrees with distinction must, therefore, use publicity to attract, interest, and hold the attention of the great mass of students, just as the reward of fame attracts and interests them...
...idealists and the newspapers, and the idealists and the newspapers will torture them out of their natural shape as they have tortured everything that has fallen into their clutches. Let them alone, to be nothing more than good sportsmanship with a little "blowing off of steam" to add zest, and they will continue to thrive-and to bring about good results in their own natural time