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 ARVARD OF TODAY 
 

 
 LIBRARY 
 
 THE UNIVERSITY 
 OF CALIFORNIA 
 
 SANTA BARBARA 
 
 PRESENTED BY 
 
 Glen G. Mosher
 
 HARVARD OF TODAY 
 
 UNDERGRADUATE POINT OF VIEW 
 
 COLLECTED AND EDITED BY 
 
 JOHN BRETT LANGSTAFF (SENIOR) 
 
 CAMBRIDGE 
 
 PUBLISHED BY THE HARVARD FEDERATION OF TERRITORIAL CLUBS 
 AT THE HARVARD UNION 
 
 1913
 
 COPYRIGHT, 1914 
 BY THE HARVARD FEDERATION OF TERRITORIAL CLUBS
 
 TO 
 
 ABBOTT LAWRENCE LOWELL 
 
 PRESIDENT OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
 
 whose personal interest in the welfare of the individual 
 undergraduate has made him the noble ideal of a democratic 
 student body, this little volume is respectfully dedicated.
 
 CONTENTS 
 
 PACK 
 
 PREFACE. C. W. ELIOT 7 
 
 EDITOR'S NOTE 17 
 
 I. THE HARVARD FEDERATION OF TERRITORIAL CLUBS 19 
 
 II. SCHOLARSHIP 21 
 
 III. RELIGIOUS LIFE 28 
 
 IV. ATHLETICS 
 
 Daily exercise 34 
 
 Football 35 
 
 Baseball 37 
 
 Track 39 
 
 Rowing 41 
 
 Hockey 44 
 
 Tennis 46 
 
 Lacrosse . . . ^ 47 
 
 Wrestling 48 
 
 Gymnastics 48 
 
 Fencing 50 
 
 Association Football 51 
 
 Swimming 52 
 
 Shooting 52 
 
 V. STUDENT PUBLICATIONS 53 
 
 VI. HARVARD UNION 58 
 
 VII. CLUBS 62 
 
 Social 63 
 
 Scientific 64 
 
 Language and Culture, etc 65 
 
 VIII. LOCATION AND ENVIRONMENT 67 
 
 IX. A TYPICAL UNDERGRADUATE'S EXPENSES AT HARVARD 71 
 
 X. PROFESSIONAL AND GRADUATE SCHOOLS 
 
 The Medical School 79 
 
 The Law School 81 
 
 The Divinity School 82 
 
 School of Arts and Sciences 83 
 
 School of Business Administration 84 
 
 Schools of Applied Science 85 
 
 XL NOT WEALTH BUT ABILITY 88 
 
 XII. FINANCIAL AIDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS 94 
 
 XIII. PUBLICATIONS CONCERNING HARVARD 100 
 
 XIV. TERRITORIAL CLUBS AND ADDRESSES OF THEIR SECRETARIES . . 102
 
 HARVARD OF TODAY
 
 PREFACE 
 
 WHAT reasons can be given to an intelligent and ambitious 
 young American for choosing Harvard University as his 
 university ? There are hundreds of colleges and universities 
 in the United States. Why should the graduate of a good 
 high school, an academy, or a private school think of going 
 to Harvard rather than to some neighboring college or uni- 
 versity, or to some institution supported by his religious 
 denomination, or to one supported by his state or his city ? 
 The reasons are many and various; so that to state them 
 even concisely needs some space. 
 
 1. Harvard College is the oldest college in the country, 
 having been established in 1636; and it was the first of the 
 American colleges to expand into a university. It was 
 founded in liberty-loving Massachusetts at a time when the 
 ministers were the ruling class, and the whole community 
 knew that their ministers ought to be well educated. For 
 the first fourteen years its government was experimental, 
 or provisional; but in 1650 a charter was granted to Harvard 
 College which established a primary governing board 
 the Corporation consisting of seven men authorized to 
 elect their successors, and to make orders for carrying on the 
 work of the college as they shall see fit, " provided the said 
 orders be allowed by the Overseers." The constitution of 
 the Overseers has been frequently changed since the Board 
 was first established in 1636, but it has always been an in- 
 fluential and serviceable body. Since 1866 the members of 
 the Board have been elected by the graduates of the College 
 in classes of five, each class to serve six years. The President 
 and Treasurer of the University are ex-officio members of 
 this Board. The Board has all powers of inspection and 
 criticism, and a veto on important acts of the Corporation, 
 except financial acts. It keeps the institution in touch
 
 8 PREFACE 
 
 with the large body of graduates and with the educated pub- 
 lic. This constitution or government is the best in the entire 
 country for a university. It has worked admirably for two 
 hundred and sixty-three years, but never so well as in the 
 last fifty years. The members of the two Boards are selected 
 intelligently, represent a large variety of influential profes- 
 sions and occupations, and acquire precious experience. They 
 are always intensely interested in the University, and put 
 into the service they render it a deal of love and gratitude. 
 The service of the Fellows of the Corporation is unpaid, but 
 has been considered highly honorable for eight generations 
 in Massachusetts. 
 
 2. Harvard University has great possessions. It has 
 more than twenty-five millions of dollars well invested for 
 yielding a cash income. It has more than eighty acres of 
 land in Cambridge, with numerous buildings of brick and 
 stone. In southwestern Boston it owns three hundred acres 
 of land devoted to agricultural and horticultural purposes, 
 including an admirable Arboretum of over two hundred 
 acres. It has in Cambridge an admirably equipped Observa- 
 tory, a Botanic Garden and Herbarium, a great Museum of 
 Natural History, Geology, and Archaeology, a Semitic 
 Museum, a Germanic Museum, and laboratories of all sorts 
 for the study of the natural and physical sciences. It has 
 in Boston a Medical School equipped with every facility for 
 teaching medicine and for conducting medical research; and 
 this Medical School is surrounded by a group of hospitals 
 which furnish the Professors of the School with ample and 
 varied opportunities for giving clinical instruction. Asso- 
 ciated with this Medical School is a perfectly equipped Dental 
 School. The University possesses good Laboratories for 
 Engineering and Mining, and a large estate at Squam Lake, 
 New Hampshire, which is devoted to the use of an Engineer- 
 ing Camp for three months of the summer. In Petersham, 
 Massachusetts, it possesses two thousand acres of forest, where 
 practical forestry is taught under highly favorable conditions. 
 But the greatest possessions of Harvard University, considered 
 as a permanent place of academic and professional instruction
 
 PREFACE 9 
 
 during an indefinite future, are its great collections of books. 
 The three most important libraries are in Cambridge at 
 the central seat of the University - - the General Library, 
 for the accommodation of which a new building is now being 
 erected with every possible convenience for the storage and 
 ready use of millions of books; the Law Library, which is 
 certainly the most comprehensive and serviceable in the 
 country, and the two Libraries of Theology, that of the Har- 
 vard Divinity School and that of the Andover Theological 
 Seminary, now united under one direction in the new Andover 
 building. 
 
 3. Harvard University undertakes to prepare young men 
 for all the professions, including the traditional liberal pro- 
 fessions, all the new scientific professions, and all the higher 
 walks of business. It maintains courses of instruction both 
 elementary and advanced in all subjects of learning, both 
 in subjects for which there is an active demand, and in those 
 which interest but fe\v students. In 1912-13 it maintained 
 seven hundred and seventy-four teachers, of whom one 
 hundred and forty-two were full Professors. In that year 
 it employed one teacher for every seven students, not counting 
 as teachers preachers, curators, and library officers, or ad- 
 ministrative officers. The election of the Professors and 
 Assistant Professors is made by the Corporation and Board 
 of Overseers; but the selection and nomination are practi- 
 cally made by the President, in consultation with the principal 
 teachers in the Department with which the new Professor is 
 to be connected. The selection of Professors is not affected 
 by any political, denominational, or local considerations. 
 The scale of salaries is reasonably high in relation to the scale 
 of living among the Professors in Cambridge and Boston; 
 and every experienced teacher in the University enjoys 
 perfect academic freedom. The University maintains a 
 liberal pension system which antedates the pension system 
 established by the Carnegie Foundation. In consequence, 
 the service of Harvard University is generally considered 
 desirable by professional teachers, so that as a rule teachers 
 .desired by Harvard University can be drawn from the service
 
 10 PREFACE 
 
 of other universities or colleges to that of Harvard. There 
 have been in recent years many forcible illustrations of this 
 fact. A large proportion of the full Professors at Harvard 
 University turn out to be men productive in literature, or 
 science, pure or applied. They exhibit, besides zeal in teach- 
 ing, eagerness for research and authorship. Harvard Uni- 
 versity, therefore, possesses all the means and apparatus 
 of modern education, a large body of highly trained and 
 effective teachers, well selected for present purposes and 
 likely to be well selected in time to come. 
 
 4. Harvard University attracts more than four thousand 
 regular students each year, exclusive of Extension students 
 and students in the Summer Schools. Of this total, four- 
 sevenths come from New England. The other three-sevenths 
 are distributed among all the other States of the Union and 
 twenty -nine foreign countries. The foreign countries in- 
 clude eight Eastern countries, Far and Near; and from these 
 countries there came in 1912-13 thirty-seven students. It 
 is an advantage to the University that four-sevenths of its 
 students come from New England; because that is the part 
 of the United States in which good systems of education have 
 been longest established, and in which literature, science, 
 and art have been longest cultivated; but it is also a great 
 advantage to the University that students come to it in large 
 numbers from all parts of the United States and from many 
 other parts of the world. To belong to a selected body of 
 youth representing such a variety of religions, governments, 
 and industrial and social conditions is a useful part of the 
 education of any young American between eighteen and 
 twenty -five. The sons of Harvard come from all parts of 
 the earth, and they scatter to all parts; and wherever they 
 live, east or west, north or south, they can establish con- 
 nections with other Harvard men, older or younger than them- 
 selves, and find in such connections welcome support in their 
 own undertakings and aspirations. 
 
 5. The graduates of Harvard University are well organized 
 in Harvard Clubs and Harvard Professional Clubs united 
 in the Associated Harvard Clubs in all the principal
 
 PREFACE 11 
 
 cities of the United States, and in many foreign cities; and 
 these Clubs make themselves very serviceable to the home 
 University, and to young graduates who go as strangers into 
 communities new to them, where the immediate support of 
 a friendly group of older residents is of real value to the 
 newcomer. The University and the Alumni Association 
 maintain for graduates and undergraduates Employment 
 Bureaus, and in securing employment, or promotion, or 
 profitable transfers for young Harvard men these Bureaus 
 utilize the friendly interest of the officers and members of 
 the numerous Harvard Clubs. 
 
 6. The University possesses a large number of funds the 
 income of which is applicable to the maintenance of poor 
 students. These aids are reserved for students who need 
 pecuniary support in winning their education, and are al- 
 lotted only to young men of proved capacity and decided 
 promise. Such aids are desirable at Harvard in all Depart- 
 ments; because every student is required to pay a tuition 
 fee, which varies in the different Departments from a hundred 
 and fifty dollars to two hundred dollars a year, a fee which 
 does not pay more than half the actual cost of educating the 
 average student. The scholarships and fellowships are 
 applied to the payment of this fee first, and the balance to 
 the board and lodgings of the student. Hundreds of young 
 men are at all times members of Harvard University who 
 could not be there were it not for these pecuniary aids; but 
 in addition, hundreds of young men are always in attendance 
 at the University who support themselves wholly or in part, 
 because a large variety of employments is open to members 
 of the University who desire to earn their living while students. 
 Fully one-quarter of all the students at any moment connected 
 with the University are men who either hold a scholarship 
 or fellowship, or who are earning their livelihood while they 
 study. It follows that among the students of Harvard 
 University every variety of family life and every sort of social 
 and industrial condition are represented. A full quarter of 
 all the students might properly be called poor; perhaps an 
 eighth belong to families that might fairly be called rich;
 
 12 PREFACE 
 
 and the other five-eighths come from families that are neither 
 rich nor poor. In this diversified body the true democratic 
 spirit prevails in high degree. Three-quarters of the under- 
 graduates belong to a large club called the Harvard Union, 
 in which the annual fee is ten dollars. Most of the other 
 quarter would like to belong to it, but cannot because they 
 have more urgent uses for the ten dollars. In filling Class 
 offices, the athletic teams, and the editorial boards of the 
 various magazines, no attention whatever is paid to the 
 pecuniary circumstances of the candidates. There exists, 
 of course, among so large a body of young men numerous 
 small social sets composed of young men of like tastes and 
 capacities in expenditure, and these sets control different 
 small clubs for social purposes. Some of these clubs are so 
 expensive that none but rich men's sons can belong to them, 
 just as in the wider society of many American cities clubs 
 for rich men only exist; but far the greater number of these 
 social college clubs are accessible to men of moderate means. 
 A majority of the students at any one time belong to none 
 of them, and get along very happily without them. The 
 general tone, or spirit, of the body of Harvard students is 
 not only democratic in the best sense of that term, but it is 
 highly altruistic. They are bent on becoming serviceable 
 men in whatever walk of life they ultimately find themselves. 
 As a rule, too, they imbibe that spirit of liberty, both civil 
 and religious, which has characterized the institution from 
 its foundation, and characterizes it today. It is an individu- 
 alistic, liberal spirit which, however, accepts the principle 
 that when the interests of the individual collide with the 
 interests of the collective mass, the individual interests must 
 yield to the collective. 
 
 Harvard University is one of the most advantageous 
 universities in the whole country for a poor student whose 
 family is unable to pay for his education. The necessary 
 expenses at the University are the tuition fee a hundred and 
 fifty dollars in the majority of the Departments, with mod- 
 erate extra fees for courses in science laboratories, and for 
 summer courses; the rent of a room at from thirty dollars
 
 PREFACE 13 
 
 upward for one student, and a charge for board which varies 
 widely according to the desires and needs of the student. 
 In one of the large Dining-Halls a student pays for just what 
 he orders by the plate, and he may go to the Hall three times 
 a day, or for three meals a week if he prefer. He may board 
 himself in his room, or he may take some meals at his room, 
 and others at the Hall. Each student can determine for 
 himself and in accordance with his own habits the cost of 
 his clothing. A common estimate of the cost of spending a 
 year at Harvard University is four hundred and fifty dollars; 
 but scores of students accomplish it every year for less money. 
 The reasons that the University is so advantageous to the 
 poor student are two, first, the large number of scholar- 
 ships and other aids for poor students; and, secondly, the 
 many and varied employments which Boston and Cambridge 
 supply for students who wish to earn a portion or the whole 
 of their annual charges. Not many years ago a young man 
 \vholly dependent on his own resources, who was an unusually 
 skilful stenographer and typewriter, worked three years in a 
 large department store in a Western city, in order to lay up 
 the money which he thought would be necessary to carry him 
 through the Harvard Law School. A few weeks' experience 
 at the University satisfied him that he might better have 
 spent those three years in Harvard College before going to the 
 Law School --that is, he could easily have earned his way 
 through Harvard College and the Harvard Law School. That 
 young man has now occupied for several years a distinguished 
 and well-paid post in the service of a foreign country, and 
 is not yet in his prime. Many young men who acquired 
 skill as teachers during their early undergraduate years have 
 laid up money while they were students at Harvard, or con- 
 tributed considerably to the support of their families, all 
 the time standing high in their college or professional school 
 work. Of course, none but men of sound health, good habits, 
 and some knowledge of personal hygiene can accomplish 
 safely such double tasks. 
 
 The athletic sports are highly organized in Harvard 
 University, and are usually maintained without resort to
 
 14 PREFACE 
 
 contributions from undergraduates, the gate money taken at 
 football and baseball games supporting all the other major 
 sports and all the minor sports. The variety of sports is 
 great; so that the individual student has a wide choice, and 
 a large majority of the students enlist in some sport or other. 
 The success of the several teams is, of course, variable from 
 year to year; but on the average and in the long run Harvard 
 University gets its full share of victory. 
 
 In regard to student publications, musical and dramatic 
 organizations, and debating, the opportunities at Harvard are 
 ample for any young man whose tastes and capacities lead 
 him in any one of these directions. The University is just 
 erecting a building devoted exclusively to instruction in 
 music and to musical entertainments. The intellectual as 
 well as the bodily sports are fostered by all sorts of tourna- 
 ments, competitions, and prizes. 
 
 The professional schools of Harvard University comprise 
 not only the Schools of Divinity, Law, and Medicine, and 
 Dentistry, but Graduate Schools of Arts and Sciences, of 
 Business Administration, of Applied Science, and of Medi- 
 cine. Each of these Schools undertakes to furnish a thorough 
 training for the corresponding profession or professions, and 
 each is thoroughly equipped for its own characteristic work. 
 The largest of these Schools is the Law School, to which 
 students resort from a large number of other colleges and 
 universities. Thus, in 1912-13 the number of colleges repre- 
 sented in the Law School was one hundred and thirty-one, 
 among which were several of the most important colleges 
 in the East for example, Brown University, represented by 
 22 students; Dartmouth College by 36; Princeton Univer- 
 sity by 66; Williams College by 12; and Yale University by 
 74. The Graduate School of Business Administration is 
 the newest of these professional schools, having been estab- 
 lished in 1908. In 1912-13 this School had 102 students 
 drawn from 22 states, and 5 students from four foreign 
 countries, namely, Japan, France, China, and Canada. 
 
 Harvard University maintains a Chapel in which daily 
 morning prayers and Sunday morning services are conducted,
 
 PREFACE 15 
 
 and a Board of five Preachers which always contains represen- 
 tatives of several different denominations. Attendance at 
 Chapel has been voluntary since 1886, but all the services are 
 well attended, and a strong religious spirit prevails among the 
 attendants. The University also maintains a Divinity or 
 Theological School in which various denominations are repre- 
 sented among both the teachers and the students. This 
 School not only provides for the scientific study of the usual 
 theological subjects, but also prepares young men for the 
 practical work of the ministry. The attitude of the Uni- 
 versity toward the different denominations of Christians 
 being one of complete toleration, it cannot sympathize with 
 any exclusive dogma, ritual, or polity, and inevitably prefers 
 the freedom of the church polity called Congregational a 
 natural feeling in an institution which was founded by Congre- 
 gationalists, and was carried on exclusively by that denomi- 
 nation for a century and a half. The Phillips Brooks House 
 is the centre of the students' religious and philanthropic 
 activities. The House is used by different students' societies, 
 each of which is standing for some definite religious doctrine or 
 ideal, but all of which are cooperating in social service. Among 
 these societies are the St. Paul's Catholic Club, the Harvard 
 University Christian Association, the St. Paul's Society for 
 students who belong to the Protestant Episcopal Church, 
 the Harvard-Andover Divinity Club, the Menorah Society 
 (Jewish), and the Harvard Mission. Whatever the religious 
 nurture of the young newcomer to the University may have 
 been, he will surely find an appropriate religious organization 
 among the students, and a church of his family's faith ready 
 to welcome him. The Boston churches as \vell as those of 
 Cambridge make students welcome. 
 
 During the first hundred and seventy-four years of the 
 existence of Harvard University, it was fostered by the Colony, 
 Province, and State by contributions to the cost of buildings 
 and small appropriations of money toward its annual expenses. 
 Since 1810, however, Massachusetts has made no direct con- 
 tributions to Harvard; so that the University has relied 
 exclusively on students' fees, the income of endowments
 
 16 PREFACE 
 
 derived from private persons, and gifts for immediate use. 
 It appears from the .experience of the last hundred years 
 that these methods of support, combined with the privilege 
 of exemption from taxation, can be trusted in this country 
 to maintain an institution of the first class generation after 
 generation; and that the graduates of such an institution 
 can hold their own in regard to professional success and public 
 serviceableness in competition with the graduates of any 
 other institution of higher education however supported. 
 
 CHARLES W. ELIOT. 
 
 7th August, 1913.
 
 EDITOR'S NOTE 
 
 THE difficulty in obtaining information about Harvard, which many 
 men now in the University have at one time experienced, led to 
 the formation of the Harvard Federation of Territorial Clubs. One 
 of the purposes of this organization of over one thousand members is 
 to give the information to others which they themselves had wanted 
 when they were thinking of coming to college. And this little 
 volume is the medium through which the fellows in school can 
 learn of the life and doings of Harvard undergraduates from repre- 
 sentative men in college. 
 
 It is a personal message from the man who is in Harvard and 
 knows, to the man who is coming to college and wants to know.
 
 CHAPTER I 
 
 THE HARVARD FEDERATION OF TERRITORIAL CLUBS 
 
 J. B. LANGSTAFF, '13 
 
 Home address, 19 Seventh Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. Prepared at Erasmus Hall 
 High School, Brooklyn. In college four years as undergraduate. President, Har- 
 vard Federation of Territorial Clubs; Chairman, Board of Associate Editors of the 
 Illustrated Magazine; President, Brooklyn Association; Chairman, Chapel Com- 
 mittee, St. Paul's Society; Chairman, Undergraduate Committee on the Revision 
 of the Hymnal ; Territorial Secretary of Committee on Organizations of the Student 
 Council; Chairman, Territorial Committee of Harvard Union. Musical Club, 
 Cotton Mather Club, Brooklyn Association, Dramatic Club, Speakers' Club, St. 
 Paul's Society, Freshman Glee Club, Conversazione Society, Union, University 
 Choir, Progressive Club, Press Association, Chairman, Committee of Pageant for 
 Hollis Hall, Memorial Society. 
 
 ALTHOUGH a man may have few friends or acquaintances when he 
 first arrives at Harvard, there are many fellow students who could 
 make him feel less a stranger because they have grown up in the 
 vicinity of his home. However varied their tastes may be, there 
 is a certain bond of sympathy, a certain common ground for con- 
 versation and comment, which does away with much of the usual 
 embarrassment of becoming acquainted. This same group of men 
 understand from their previous experience just what problems and 
 difficulties arise for the man coming to Harvard from their part of 
 the world. They are able therefore to introduce the new man to 
 the unfamiliar conditions of Harvard life and advise him wisely 
 about his future plans. Moreover, students who expect to leave 
 Cambridge to take up work at home will find it pleasant and advan- 
 tageous to have known each other in college. For these and other 
 reasons about thirty groups of students have organized themselves 
 into what are known as territorial clubs and these clubs in turn 
 have joined in the formation of the Harvard Federation of Terri- 
 torial Clubs. 
 
 In historic times the Freshmen were made to " fag " for upper 
 classmen, later they were hazed, and more recently they were 
 ignored. But now the importance of assisting and guiding the Fresh- 
 men has been realized by the Faculty and upper classmen. Such 
 institutions as the Senior and Faculty advisers, receptions, and lec- 
 tures have their use, but organized groups of men from the Fresh- 
 
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 20 HARVARD OF TODAY 
 
 man's own part of the country are invaluable. The result has been 
 that most territorial clubs hold a special meeting at the opening of 
 the year to welcome new men. 
 
 Students from the following territories have organized themselves 
 in more or less active groups : New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Colorado, 
 Ohio, Wisconsin, Indiana, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Oregon, 
 
 TERRITORIAL ROOM 
 
 HEADQUARTERS OF THE HARVARD FEDERATION OF TERRITORIAL CLUBS IN THE UNION 
 
 Washington State, California, Texas, Cotton Belt States, West Vir- 
 ginia, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Canada, Buffalo, Long 
 Island, Chicago, Kansas City, and in Massachusetts, Concord, Fall 
 River, Fitchburg, Maiden, Medford, and Worcester. The effective- 
 ness of this Federation to which more than one thousand men belong 
 accounts for its rapid growth. The territorial club not only serves 
 as a means of social intercourse at Harvard, but it also purposes to 
 make clear to fellows who intend to come to college the advantages 
 and requirements of Harvard. The attractively equipped head- 
 quarters of the Federation, where the constituent clubs hold their 
 meetings, dances, and dinners, is in the Harvard Union, and it is 
 possible to reach any of the clubs at this address or through the 
 secretaries whose addresses are given at the end of this book. The 
 clubs hold themselves at the service of anybody who desires such 
 information concerning the University as the students can give.
 
 CHAPTER II 
 
 SCHOLARSHIP 
 
 D. E. DUNBAR, '13 
 
 Home address, Springfield, Massachusetts. Prepared at Central High School, 
 Springfield. In college four years as undergraduate. Second Marshal, Phi Beta 
 Kappa, 1912-13; Editorial Chairman, Crimson, 1912-13; Vice-President, Wilson 
 Club, 1912; Chairman, Student Council Committee on Scholarship, 1912-13. 
 Bowditch Scholarship, 1910-11; Price Greenleaf Scholarship, 1911-12; Richard 
 Augustine Gambrill Scholarship, 1912-13; Ricardo Prize, 1912; Detur, 1910; First 
 Group Scholarship, 1910-11, 1911-12, 1912-13; Honorable Mention for Bowdoin 
 Prize, 1911, 1912. Signet Society, Phi Beta Kappa, Advocate, Crimson, Student 
 Council, Speakers' Club, University Register, Committee on Sesquicentennial Cele- 
 bration of Hollis Hall. 
 
 THE four years spent in college comprise the formative period of 
 a man's life. The habits formed and the faculties developed then 
 are the foundation for future usefulness. These four years of col- 
 lege are not an isolated period during which the individual may give 
 himself up entirely to fun and play and after which he may turn 
 suddenly to professional or business endeavor with the guarantee of 
 success. Those who have neglected their academic opportunities 
 always find themselves handicapped in the real competition of life. 
 The community supports a college because its function is to teach 
 men to think, to foster learning, and to add to the store of human 
 knowledge accumulated through the ages. This being the purpose of 
 a college, no such institution can thrive unless scholarship is its main 
 concern. Therefore, through loyalty to college and duty to com- 
 munity, the young men who have the opportunity for a higher 
 education should understand and improve it. 
 
 Students come to Harvard with diverse notions as to what they 
 want to do. A great, many come to study; a larger number win 
 distinction in the various activities of college life; and, unfortu- 
 nately, too many intend to enter merely to enjoy the " best time 
 ever." It is well to come to Harvard with the determination to do 
 something; it is better to come with mind set on studies before all 
 else; it is despicable to come to loaf. 
 
 When a Freshman enters college he is immature and generally 
 undecided; consequently his actions must be guided. To this end 
 a modified form of the elective svstem has been devised bv Presi-
 
 22 HARVARD OF TODAY 
 
 dent Lowell. Under the unrestricted elective system, many students 
 sought to evade serious work and consequently acquired what may 
 be termed a " blind alley " education. They elected courses merely 
 because they were notoriously easy, and they followed no consecu- 
 
 A. LAWRENCE LOWELL 
 
 PRESIDENT OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
 
 tive or rational plan of study. With the new plan of concentration 
 in one field of study and the distribution of other courses in allied 
 fields, the opportunity is presented to each student to plan from 
 the beginning a logical outline for his work during the ensuing four
 
 HARVARD OF TODAY 23 
 
 years. To follow the new plan in spirit as well as in letter will give 
 the maximum of profit and satisfaction. 
 
 An academic innovation adopted in several departments amounts 
 to a partial application of the preceptorial system. This aims to 
 place the supervision of the student's study in the hands of a young 
 and experienced teacher who can analyze the needs of his few pupils 
 and supply them. Thus a close personal friendship should develop 
 
 EMERSON HALL 
 
 INTERIOR OF ONE OF THE LARGE LECTURE ROOMS 
 
 between the preceptor and student, and this should give the stu- 
 dent a stronger incentive to become interested and active in his 
 field of study. Futhermore, this plan provides for a set of oral 
 examinations at the end of the college course instead of a written 
 examination in each individual course. At the present time almost 
 all students tend to regard their courses as isolated from one another 
 and do not seek to correlate those lying in the same field. The 
 result is a disjointed and cellular mass of information. The aim of 
 the provision for oral examination on a particular field of study,
 
 24 HARVARD OF TODAY 
 
 for instance, modern history or economics, is to ensure a proper 
 coordination by the student of the knowledge gained in all his 
 courses in that field. The introduction of the concentration plan 
 has already raised the standard of scholarship appreciably; the pro- 
 posed scheme of preceptors and oral examination will accomplish a 
 great deal more. 
 
 While the true reward for good scholarship lies in the intangible 
 mental resources gained, there are plenty of material prizes to be 
 won for distinction in academic work. In the first place there are 
 two groups of scholars: the first is composed of students of very 
 
 MASSACHUSETTS HALL AND HARVARD HALL 
 
 WINTER SCENE IN THE YARD 
 
 high standard; and the second, made up of students who have done 
 excellent work, but failed to make the higher group. Admission to 
 these groups is based on the previous year's work. To win a posi- 
 tion in the first, a Freshman must earn four ^4's and one B; an 
 upper classman, three and one-half A's and one-half B. For the 
 second group the minimum requirement varies, but is usually two 
 A's and two B's. 
 
 Every member of the two groups receives a scholarship, either 
 beneficiary or honorary, the latter, provided he is not dependent 
 upon aid for his education. There are a large number of scholar- 
 ships with stipends, ranging in amount from $525 down to $200, or 
 less. Three of the scholarships with stipend deserve special em- 
 phasis. First, the Jacob Wendell Scholarship of $250 is a prize and 
 is bestowed upon the leading scholar of the Sophomore class; the 
 Saltonstall Scholarship of $525 is awarded to the student of highest 
 standing in the Junior class; and the Richard Augustine Gambrill
 
 HARVARD OF TODAY 25 
 
 Scholarship of $525 goes to the leading scholar of the College, who 
 is, of course, a member of the Senior class. To win one of these 
 scholarships is a worthy distinction. 
 
 In addition to the many scholarships are the prizes. Several 
 of these are very old foundations, and lists of winners during years 
 past are replete with the names of famous men. Among these 
 prizes the oldest is the Detur, which consists of an elegantly bound 
 work of some great author and bears the seal of the University. 
 
 RADCLIFFE COLLEGE 
 
 THE COLLEGE FOR GTRLS WHICH IS AFFILIATED WITH HARVARD 
 
 Deturs are given only to members of the First Group. Perhaps 
 the most renowned of the prizes are the Bowdoin Prizes, given 
 for dissertations in English, Greek, and Latin. A very large num- 
 ber of essays are submitted in competition for them and the winning 
 contributions are often works of unusual merit. The first prize for 
 the English dissertation is $250; and the two second awards are 
 $100 each. In the Economics Department the principal prize is 
 the Ricardo, often given to Juniors, Seniors, and Graduates. In 
 the division of History, the Philip Washburn Prize; in Comparative 
 Literature, the Potter Prizes; in Public Speaking, the Boylston 
 Prizes: all are rewards of high merit. 
 
 These scholarships and prizes form a pyramid of academic honors ; 
 at the top is Phi Beta Kappa. That election to this society is the 
 highest distinction one can win in college is common opinion. The 
 organization has existed now for one hundred and thirty-seven 
 years, and during this long period has always upheld the laudable 
 ideals of scholarship and character. Ejection to the Harvard 
 Chapter, the Alpha of Massachusetts, may come in the Junior 
 or Senior year. The College office submits annually to the secre- 
 tary a list of the highest twelve men in the Junior class, and one
 
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 of the highest forty -four from the Senior class. From the former, 
 eight are chosen and they comprise the Junior Eight; from the 
 latter twenty-two are elected. The electing is done by the Junior 
 Eight of the" previous year and is very closely supervised by a 
 committee of graduates, of whom President Lowell is chairman. 
 Scholarship and high character are the sole determinants of elec- 
 tion. In addition to the thirty men selected from each class in 
 
 JOSIAH QUINCY PRESENTING THE DIPLOMA 
 
 this way, ten more are chosen toward the end of the Senior year, 
 to include men who during their four years of college work have 
 shown themselves worthy of the honor, but have failed to attain 
 it through some circumstances not derogatory; and to include those 
 who win high distinctions and prizes at the end of their course. 
 
 It is very true that every young man of brain and energy wishes 
 to enter into the life and activity of his college. Some assert that 
 to follow the thorny and rocky path of scholarship means isolation, 
 disappointment, and finally alienation from the real world. Such 
 is far from the truth. Not only is the path of learning not thorny
 
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 and rocky, it is verdant and invigorating, once access is made. 
 Truly, in the midst of the hundreds of teeming activities of Harvard 
 undergraduate life, with your fellows and your predilections calling 
 in all directions, it is hard to start on the difficult path of study. 
 But it is the path of duty. Your college exists to train the mind; 
 it opens to you the gate to the fields of learning cultivated through 
 all ages, where ideas grow and thrive, and where ground is waiting 
 for others to be sown. The world beyond, the active machine, is 
 fed and run by the ideas grown here; ever increasing, it demands a 
 larger and larger crop. Enter then, youth of Harvard, and your 
 service will be worthy and our College ever great.
 
 CHAPTER III 
 
 RELIGIOUS LIFE 
 
 W. L. USTICK, '13 
 
 Home address, St. Louis, Missouri. Prepared at Ferguson High School, Ferguson, 
 Missouri, and University of Missouri. In college four years as undergraduate. At 
 University of Missouri one year. Secretary, Christian Association, 1911-12; Vice- 
 President, Christian Association, 1912-13; Secretary, Glee Club, 1912-13; Editor, 
 Register, 1912-13; Chairman, Student Council Committee on Organizations, 1913; 
 Chairman, Information Bureau, Phillips Brooks House, 1912. Freshman Crew 
 Squad, 1910; Dormitory and Weld Boat Club Crews, 1910-11. Freshman Glee 
 Club, University Glee Club, Christian Association, University Choir, Speakers' 
 Club, Deutscher Verein. 
 
 THE religious life of Harvard is somewhat undemonstrative, but 
 this quality indicates reserve rather than indifference. The oppor- 
 tunities for the expression of the religious spirit are many. First, 
 there is the Chapel, with its Sunday morning service, and its brief 
 prayer service at the beginning of each day. Then there are the 
 many churches in Cambridge and Boston, of all denominations, 
 whose doors are ever open to the student. Finally, there is Phillips 
 Brooks House, dedicated to " piety, charity, hospitality," which aims 
 to unite all religious and philanthropic activities in the University. 
 
 The University Chapel offers an undenominational service, con- 
 ducted by men of all communions and from all parts of the country. 
 Each preacher conducts service on Sundays and week-days through- 
 out his ministration. The men are chosen for their ability as 
 preachers, their scholarship and breadth of view, and their religious 
 fervor. Besides conducting services, the preachers have regular 
 hours each day when they are glad to meet students personally, to 
 advise with them or talk over any matters in which they may be 
 interested. It is a rare privilege to meet such men in this way, and 
 it is coming to be appreciated by more and more students each 
 year. 
 
 The services in Chapel are designed primarily for young men. 
 Only students and members of the Faculty attend the morning 
 prayer service, and even on Sundays there is but a limited provision 
 made for the public. Consequently, the speaker does not feel that 
 he must address his sermon to a miscellaneous gathering of people 
 of all ages and from all stations of life; the student body is suffi- 
 
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 ciently homogeneous to allow him to speak to it as to one man, and 
 the gain in directness and in contact of personality is immeasur- 
 able. An important part of the service is the music. The choir, 
 which is one of the best men choirs in the country, is made up 
 entirely of students, and is under the direction of a member of the 
 Faculty. The music presented is of the very highest quality. In- 
 deed, many of the selections are never given elsewhere, even in our 
 
 UNIVERSITY CHAPEL 
 
 VIEW FROM TOWER OF MEMORIAL HALL 
 
 largest city churches. The congregation, the minister, the music, - 
 everything, make for a spirit of healthy manliness. 
 
 Even more important than the Sunday service, in some ways, 
 are the daily prayers. This service comes at a quarter to nine in 
 the morning, and lasts but fifteen minutes: thus men who attend 
 it are able to be on time for nine o'clock classes. A great many men 
 find attendance at daily prayers an excellent preparation for the 
 day's work. It is as well rounded a service as could be held in the 
 brief time allotted to it. The sincere and spontaneous spirit of 
 worship which pervades the place makes "daily Chapel," an im- 
 portant factor in the lives of many students. 
 
 Besides the daily and weekly services, there are two very im- 
 portant occasional services: the annual Freshman Service, and 
 the celebration of the Lord's Supper. The former is held in the
 
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 Chapel for the entire Freshman Class, and President Lowell and 
 several members of the Faculty speak. It was originated by one 
 of the classes a few years ago, and is now an established custom. 
 The Lord's Supper is celebrated at least once a year in the Chapel. 
 It is only for students, and for the members of the Faculty who 
 officiate. The service was instituted a few years ago, in response 
 to a petition signed by some two hundred students, another 
 indication of the quiet but none the less earnest religious spirit 
 of Harvard. 
 
 Although a large part of the student body makes the University 
 Chapel the regular place for its worship, there are always some 
 men who prefer to be identified with a church of their own denomi- 
 nation. To such men, the churches of Cambridge and Boston 
 extend a hearty welcome. Many of them make a special effort 
 to include students in their congregations, and to that end have 
 Bible classes especially designed for college men, and provide for 
 social life among the younger people of the church. In this way, 
 students who are in Cambridge for the first time find an opportu- 
 nity to meet Cambridge and Boston people, and are given an outlet 
 for the natural desire for social intercourse. 
 
 Phillips Brooks House is the other center of religious life in the 
 University, and in a sense it represents even more than the Chapel 
 the interests of the students. Brooks House was built in 1900 to 
 bring together the various religious and philanthropic societies 
 in the University, to provide them with facilities for carrying on 
 their work, and to bring into closer communion men interested in 
 the same things. The expense of maintaining the House is met 
 with money contributed by students, graduates, and members 
 of the Faculty, and in part by the endowment fund of Phillips Brooks 
 House. The work of the House is carried on by students, under 
 the general direction of a permanent Graduate Secretary; but his 
 supervision is of a very general nature, and it is still true that 
 Brooks House is distinctly a student institution, owing its very 
 existence to the constant demand which it is intended to meet. 
 
 Brooks House is absolutely non-sectarian. Its roof shelters 
 men of every creed, and discriminates between them only as they 
 choose to join themselves with one or other of the various groups 
 of men who are trying to realize certain definite ideals. It is a 
 striking example of the cooperation which the churches throughout 
 Christendom are coming to find so effective.
 
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 The chief interests of Brooks House may be divided into three 
 classes: " religious," which emphasize man's relation to God; 
 " philanthropic," which lay stress on man's relation to his fellows 
 in the outside world; and "social," which relate more particularly 
 to fellowship among the men who are connected with Brooks House. 
 
 The " religious " interests include meetings for worship and 
 discussion of religious matters, and Bible study. The Harvard 
 University Christian Association, one of the groups of men within 
 
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 PHILLIPS BROOKS HOUSE 
 
 the larger association, has meetings every Sunday morning before 
 Chapel, with occasionally a special meeting in the evening to which 
 some prominent speaker is invited. The weekly meetings, which 
 are open to all members of the University, are devotional in char- 
 acter and are for the discussion of religious problems. The St. 
 Paul's Society, which includes all men in the University who are 
 members of the Protestant Episcopal Church, also has weekly de- 
 votional meetings, on Wednesday evenings, and occasional special 
 meetings. Other groups within the Brooks House Association, 
 which have their own meetings, are: the St. Paul's Catholic Club,
 
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 the Harvard-Andover Divinity Club, the Harvard Mission, the 
 Graduate Schools Society, and the Law School Society. 
 
 Bible study is carried on by series of conferences held once a 
 week, under the direction of members of the Faculty, or even more 
 informally, in the students' rooms for the systematic discussion of 
 whatever problems happen to interest the particular group. These 
 "classes," by bringing men of all beliefs and all types of mind into 
 
 PHILLIPS BROOKS 
 
 AS A STUDENT AT HARVARD 
 
 closer relationship with one another, foster a spirit of tolerance and 
 broad-mindedness which could be attained in hardly any other way. 
 We have called those activities which have to do with man's 
 relation to man, the " philanthropic " activities. There is per- 
 haps more emphasis placed upon this phase of the work done at 
 Brooks House, than upon any other. The spirit of service to 
 one's fellow men, which is the turn that Harvard's religion takes, 
 finds expression in many kinds of activity, loosely ranged under 
 the term " social service." This includes every kind of service, 
 from giving entertainments at settlement houses in Boston and 
 neighboring towns, to conducting boys' clubs, carrying on juvenile
 
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 court work, teaching foreigners, tutoring working boys for college, 
 collecting cast-off clothing from students and distributing it through 
 charitable institutions, to needy families, besides a host of other 
 things too numerous to mention. The student who has a little 
 spare time at his disposal, and desires to express his love for his 
 fellows in really useful service, need not fear for lack of opportunity. 
 Men who undertake this kind of work not only aid materially the 
 people with whom they work, but also gain an insight into social 
 conditions which may influence the entire trend of their lives. 
 Contact with all sorts and conditions of men, through social ser- 
 vice, often broadens the student more than any amount of purely 
 academic work could do, and makes him better fit to be of service 
 to his community after college. 
 
 The " social " activities of Brooks House are each year coming 
 to claim the attention of increasing numbers of men. First, there 
 is the fall work among new students in the University, which con- 
 sists in looking after men who have just come to Cambridge, and 
 trying to make them feel at home in their strange surroundings. 
 Quite in the same spirit is the reception to new students early in 
 the autumn, in Brooks House, where the members of the incoming 
 Freshman class gather for a social evening, and listen to brief talks 
 by prominent upper classmen, and by members of the Faculty. 
 There are also meetings of a social nature held by the different 
 societies in Brooks House, for their own members; and on Thanks- 
 giving and Christmas nights, the House entertains all members of 
 the University who care to be present. Besides these opportuni- 
 ties for fellowship, the University provides an important means of 
 stimulating social intercourse through weekly receptions at Brooks 
 House, on Friday afternoons. Members of the Faculty and their 
 families receive informally, and all members of the University are 
 invited to be present. Thus does Phillips Brooks House realize 
 its purpose, expressed in the motto: "Piety, charity, hospitality." 
 
 The College Chapel, the many churches of all denominations in 
 Cambridge and Boston, and the Phillips Brooks House: these are 
 the forces which make for religion, righteousness and social service, 
 in Harvard University.
 
 CHAPTER IV 
 
 ATHLETICS 
 DAILY EXERCISE 
 
 ONE of the important factors in an undergraduate's life is his daily 
 exercise. The man who prefers to take his exercise outside the 
 regular college sports has no end of natural resources to satisfy 
 his desire. The canoes and wherries of the University boat houses 
 are convenient for boating on the Charles, and in half an hour 
 it is possible to reach the beautiful stream of which Hawthorne 
 speaks, winding through the hills, past the Old Manse and under 
 
 CALISTHENICS IN THE HEMENWAY GYMNASIUM 
 
 the Concord Bridge where the first shot of the Revolution was fired. 
 The historic country about Cambridge is ideal for long tramps. 
 
 The facilities used by the men who are training for the teams are 
 practically always open to any members of the University. Sol- 
 diers' Field, which covers an extensive level acreage on the other 
 side of the river from the University, is the scene of most of the 
 outdoor events. Here are the cement stadium, which has seated
 
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 over 40,000 spectators, the baseball stands, the locker building 
 and the baseball cage. The cinder track, the jumping pits, the 
 lacrosse and soccer fields, and numerous tennis courts are also 
 given space in the same field. Beyond the Hemenway Gymnasium, 
 where appropriate apparatus is provided for basket ball, wrestling, 
 calisthenics, etc., are the majority of the tennis courts. 
 
 FOOTBALL 
 
 R. T. P. STOKER, '14 
 
 Home address, 286 Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts. Prepared at Noble and 
 Greenough School. Captain, University Football Team, 1913-1914. Fly Club, 
 Kalumet Club, Varsity Club, Institute of 1770, Hasty Pudding Club, etc. 
 
 Football is a game, and as a game, it should be played in the 
 same spirit and with the same sense of clean play and fairness that 
 characterize all sports. Now, mixed with this idea of fair play, 
 
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 FOOTBALL IN THE STADIUM 
 
 there should be a strong bond of spirit spirit that will make each 
 man do his utmost individually, and spirit that will make the eleven 
 men act and work as a unit. When a team can once get this idea 
 of enthusiasm it is on the road to success. The minor points come 
 easily then, team play develops of itself, and the team acquires a 
 feeling of confidence. Nothing will come without good hard work. 
 A fellow should never go out for a team without the full intention 
 of making it, or at least, of doing his very best. If he does not 
 succeed, it is only because another fellow has done better than his 
 best.
 
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 Some men go out for a team just to show a little spirit. If the 
 coach does not pay much attention to them in the early practice, 
 they soon feel discouraged and " quit." Others go out with little 
 expectation of making the team, but with every idea of doing their 
 best to help their team, and incidentally, themselves, They are 
 always there when practice is called, they pay close attention to 
 what the coach tells them, and they listen carefully to pick up 
 
 PRACTICE 
 
 points when the coach is criticising others. They may be put on 
 the second team for two seasons, but in the end they will get their 
 chance. Still others may be pretty good players who think they 
 are sure of the team. They loaf in practice, they loaf off the field, 
 and they loaf in their rooms. Such men end by being displaced 
 on the team or by being forbidden to play on the team because of 
 low standing in studies. Finally, there are others good ath- 
 letes who try to do their best in everything. They will try to 
 help the next man and give him suggestions. When a question 
 comes up, they will face it. Such men are sure to succeed, not
 
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 only in school, but later. They never shirk responsibility and are 
 natural leaders. 
 
 The points to be emphasized are: 
 
 (1) Never do a thing without the full intention of doing it 
 
 to the best of your ability. 
 
 (2) Never quit until you are dropped. 
 
 (3) Earn the right to play on your teams by keeping up in 
 
 your studies. 
 
 (4) Never rest on what you have done: always look to the 
 
 future and try to do a little better each day. 
 Candidates for the University Team are called out about the 
 middle of September. For the first four or five days the work 
 consists of getting into shape for the hard grind ahead. After 
 college begins, practice is held every afternoon, and a game is played 
 every Saturday up to the Yale game. For the Freshmen the work 
 is pretty much the same. Candidates are called out at the opening 
 of college under a Senior coach with men of experience as assistants. 
 The Freshman schedule includes games with a number of large 
 preparatory schools such as Andover, Exeter, Groton, and Hill, 
 and other Freshman teams, like those of Cornell, and Yale. 
 
 BASEBALL 
 
 D. J. P. WINGATE, '14 
 
 Home address, 8 Stratford Road, Winchester, Massachusetts. Captain, University 
 Baseball Team, 1912-13, 1913-14. Delta Upsilon, Institute of 1770, Hasty Pud- 
 ding, etc. 
 
 Baseball requires no recommendation to Americans. Suffice 
 it to say that at Harvard it receives the full measure of interest 
 and enthusiasm to which it is entitled as the National Game. 
 
 The baseball season at Harvard covers a period of about six 
 months. In the fall, regular practice begins after the opening of
 
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 college and continues as long as the weather permits. All men 
 who intend to try for the University team, and who are not engaged 
 in other sports at the time, are expected to report for this work. 
 The spring practice starts in the cage about the middle of February. 
 Although about twenty men are taken on a trip during the Easter 
 vacation, these do not necessarily comprise the first squad for the 
 whole season. They are the men who have shown the best work 
 up to that time, but they must prove their fitness to remain on the 
 squad. The University team begins its regular schedule after 
 returning from this trip. Directly after the Easter vacation, the 
 
 BASEBALL CAGE ON SOLDIERS' FIELD 
 
 second team is organized from those who are not retained on the 
 first squad. The second team plays a regular schedule of games, 
 and men who do good work during the season are given a trial for 
 the first squad. 
 
 Practice for the Freshman team under direction of a capable 
 player is held at the same period as that for the University team. 
 The squad which reports in February is cut to about twenty men by 
 the middle of April, when its schedule is opened. The schedule of 
 games played with preparatory schools and freshman teams is 
 concluded by the contest with the Yale freshmen. In addition 
 to the regular teams, there are about twenty scrub nines, which 
 play a series of games among themselves for the Leiter Cup. 
 
 In regard to the men who make the University and Freshman 
 teams, much might be said of interest to men entering college.
 
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 Briefly I should like to make it clear that the positions are strictly 
 competitive, and are won by the men who show ability and im- 
 provement. Statistics show that, in the past three years, just 
 about one-half of the men who have won their letters in baseball 
 are men who came to college from high schools, and that a number 
 
 INTERCOLLEGIATE TRACK MEET IN THE STADIUM 
 
 of men who ultimately played on the team had been brought up 
 from the second squad during the season. 
 
 TRACK 
 
 J. B. CL-MMINGS, '13 
 
 Home address, Fall River, Massachusetts. Prepared at Stone's School. In college 
 four years as undergraduate. Class Day Committee; Freshman Track Team; 
 University Track Team, 1911, 1912, 1913; Captain, 1913. Institute of 1770, 
 D. K. E., Phoenix Club, Hasty Pudding Club, Memorial Society, Student Council, 
 Stone's Club, Varsity Club, Union. 
 
 To men who are interested in track athletics, Harvard offers 
 splendid opportunities for development. In equipment it is un-
 
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 surpassed, for the track and jumping-pits at the Stadium are gener- 
 ally acknowledged the best in the country. To obtain greater 
 efficiency and give more individual attention, two coaches are 
 employed, one for the field events and one for the sprints and runs. 
 Thus there is every chance for new men to develop into first-class 
 performers. The quality that counts for success is perseverance. 
 
 CROSS COUNTRY 
 
 The man who keeps working quietly on in face of early discourage- 
 ment will find himself at last one of those on whom the coaches 
 have come to depend. 
 
 Fall practice begins at once on the regular track. During the 
 winter, the field event men and hurdlers work in the baseball cage, 
 and a board track is set up for the relay runners. These runners 
 compete during the winter with Cornell and Yale and in the Inter- 
 collegiate indoor relay championships at New York. To accustom 
 the men to competition, handicap contests in the field events are 
 held weekly in the cage. Throughout the winter, also, there are 
 numerous indoor meets in and around Boston which individual men 
 can enter. 
 
 In the spring come the dual meets with Cornell and Yale, and 
 the Intercollegiat'es, the handicap, consolation, and interclass meets,
 
 HARVARD OF TODAY 41 
 
 in which everybody has a chance. The Freshman track team is 
 made up at the same time as the University and with the same 
 
 OUTDOOR BOARD TRACK IN WINTER 
 
 attention. It holds meets in the course of the spring season with 
 Andover and Exeter and with the Yale freshmen. 
 
 ROWING 
 
 C. T. ABELES, '13 
 
 Home address. 4140 Washington Boulevard, St. Louis, Missouri. Prepared at 
 Smith Academy, St. Louis, Missouri. In college four years as undergraduate. 
 Treasurer, Memorial Society; Class Day Committee; Coxswain, Freshman Crew; 
 Coxswain, University Crew, 1911-12, 1913 (Captain). Student Council, 1912-13, 
 D. K. E., Institute of 1770, Western Club, Signet Society, Phoenix Club, Hasty 
 Pudding Club. 
 
 Rowing is by no means so widespread a sport as football or base- 
 ball. But at Harvard it occupies an important position in the 
 athletic world and is recognized, along with the other so-called 
 major sports, by the award of the " H " to members of the crew 
 rowing against Yale.
 
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 In its requirements rowing is probably the most exacting of any of 
 the athletic activities in which undergraduates engage. Its train- 
 ing season is long. At the end of a month's rowing, immediately 
 
 ON THE CHARLES RIVER 
 
 after the opening of college, there is an intermission up to the first 
 of February, when a general call for candidates is issued. The 
 number of men responding to this call for candidates for the 
 
 AT RED TOP PRIOR TO THE YALE RACE AT NEW LONDON 
 
 University and Freshman squads is usually over one hundred and 
 twenty-five. There is, of course, a gradual reduction of this num- 
 ber, until the final selection of the men who are to race against
 
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 Yale late in June. The men then chosen are taken to New London 
 where for three weeks they train for the final contests. 
 
 There is one point of distinction between rowing and the other 
 major sports which makes it of particular interest to the Freshman. 
 Previous experience and training count for little in a man's chances 
 of success. Statistics show that almost half of the men who have 
 rowed in University crews in the past ten years have never had an 
 oar in their hands before coming to college. Their success is 
 brought about by a well-established system of dormitory and class 
 rowing whereby inexperienced men may learn the rudiments of 
 the sport under competent coaches. Hence the competition for 
 crews is restricted only by certain physical requirements, the bounds 
 of which are by no means so narrow as is popularly supposed. 
 
 A Freshman who goes in for rowing with any serious purpose 
 must, however, be willing to endure a rigorous course of training. 
 Rowing, more than any other sport, demands perseverance, self- 
 sacrifice, and courage. And, lest the Freshman think that this is 
 too much to ask for a few short moments of competition, let him 
 question an upper classman who has gone through the New London 
 experience. The answer will invariably be in favor of what is one 
 of the greatest of college activities. 
 
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 HOCKEY 
 
 H. B. GARDNER, '13 
 
 Home address, New York City. Prepared at St. Paul's School, Concord, New 
 Hampshire. In college four years as undergraduate. Athletic Committee, 1912-13; 
 Executive Committee of the Varsity Club, 1912-13; Governing Board of the Union, 
 1912-13; Executive Committee, Student Council, 1912-13; Editor of Freshman 
 Red Book; Vice-President, Junior Class; Third Marshal, Senior Class; Freshman 
 Football Team; Captain, Freshman Hockey Team; University Football Team, 
 1910, 1911, 1912; University Hockey Team, 1912, 1913 (Captain). St. Paul's 
 School Club, Phillips Brooks House, Polo Club, Kalumet Club, O. K. Club, Institute 
 of 1770, D. K. E., Hasty Pudding Club, A. D. Club, Memorial Society. 
 
 The growing importance of hockey has been recognized at Har- 
 vard by its elevation to the rank of a major sport, for which the 
 regular " H " is awarded. Ample facilities for practice are afforded 
 
 HOCKEY RINK ON JARVIS FIELD 
 
 by the rinks on Soldier's Field and at the Boston Arena, and in- 
 terest in the sport is widespread and keen. 
 
 Practice for the Freshman team begins as soon as the Soldier's 
 Field rinks can be frozen. The coaching is in charge of an experi- 
 enced player, who is assisted by members of the University squad. 
 Games are played with the large preparatory schools, and the 
 season is concluded in February by a contest with the Yale fresh- 
 men. The University team begins practice on the Arena rink in 
 November, and, in the course of its season, has the opportunity of 
 meeting the best college teams in this country and in Canada. 
 Besides the activities of these regular teams, there is a scrub series 
 which is very popular.
 
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 46 HARVARD OF TODAY 
 
 Hockey has the advantage of affording exercise and occupation 
 at a time of the year when other sports are dormant, and it offers 
 a great opportunity for men with little or no experience. There 
 is no better way of exercising during the winter months than in 
 regular activity on the hockey rink. 
 
 TENNIS 
 
 H. G. SMITH, '14 
 
 Home address, New York City. Prepared at Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, 
 Pennsylvania. In college four years as undergraduate. Manager, Tennis Team, 
 1912, 1912-13; Treasurer, Pennsylvania Club, 1912-13; Class Tennis Team, 1911 
 and 1912; University Tennis Team, 1912. Dramatic Club, Pennsylvania Club. 
 
 Although the major sports hold a greater attraction in the field 
 of athletics, the minor sports, besides offering excellent opportu- 
 nities for fun and exercise, are carefully organized, and provide a 
 splendid chance for a man to represent the University. Undoubt- 
 edly the most popular of the minor sports is tennis. The University 
 owns fifty-four courts, seventeen on Soldier's Field, and the rest on 
 Jarvis Field, and for the use of these the nominal sum of ten cents 
 an hour is charged to each player. The fall season includes tourna- 
 ments in singles and doubles, and an interclass tournament between 
 teams selected from each class. The members of the winning 
 team receive their numeral insignia in their class colors. Compe- 
 titions for positions on the University and Freshman teams, which 
 hold regular scheduled matches with outside organizations, take 
 place during the spring. Among the games played by the Univer- 
 sity team are those with Amherst, Brown, Pennsylvania, Princeton, 
 and Yale, and late in the summer just before the opening of college 
 is held the Intercollegiate tennis championship tournament. Mem- 
 bers of the University team who play against Yale or in the Inter- 
 collegiates are awarded the insignia " H. T. T." Class tournaments 
 are popular in the spring and the four winners compete with the 
 members of the University squad for the University championship.
 
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 LACROSSE 
 
 R. S. SIMMONS, '13 
 
 Home address, Boston, Massachusetts. Prepared at Boston Latin School. In 
 college four years as undergraduate. Lacrosse Team, 1911, 1912 (Captain), 1913. 
 Alpha Phi Sigma. 
 
 Lacrosse, a sport that originated among the American Indians, 
 although little known in the schools and colleges of this section 
 of the country, is rapidly gaining in popularity. The game is 
 similar to hockey, except that it is played with sticks equipped 
 with gut nets, and a ball instead of a puck. The contest consists 
 
 LACROSSE SCRIMAGE 
 
 of tossing the ball from player to player by means of the sticks in 
 an endeavor to carry it down the field and into the opponent's 
 goal. Speed in running, and skill in stick-handling are essential to 
 a good player. It is not necessary that a player possess great 
 strength or weight, so that a fellow who is willing to work hard and 
 earnestly can readily pick up the sport and become proficient in it. 
 Harvard is represented each spring by a Freshman team and a Uni- 
 versity team. For several years past the University team, which 
 makes a southern trip in the spring and competes in the Intercol- 
 legiate League, has succeeded in winning the championship of the 
 League.
 
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 WRESTLING 
 W. R. TYLER, '14 
 
 Home address, 4610 Racine Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. University Wrestling Team, 
 1912-13. 
 
 From late in November until early in April daily practice in 
 wrestling is held in the Gymnasium under the supervision of a coach 
 well qualified to give instruction in the game. This sport offers 
 one of the few opportunities for the athlete who is unable to skate 
 
 PARADE TO SOLDIERS' FIELD 
 
 or swim to partake of exercise in an organized sport during the 
 winter months. It is exactly the thing for the football player who 
 wishes to keep in good condition in the off-season, or for the man 
 who wants to build up his muscles and general physical condition. 
 
 GYMNASTICS 
 
 J. R. MORTON, '13 
 
 Home address, Brooklyn, New York. Prepared at Manual Training High School, 
 Brooklyn, New York. In college four years as undergraduate. Second Vice- 
 President Chess Club, 1911-12; President, 1912-13; Chess Team, 1911-12; Gym- 
 nastic Team, 1910, 1911, 1912 (Captain), 1912-13. C. L. Jones Scholarship, 1912- 
 13. Deutscher Verein, Brooklyn Club. 
 
 The active season for the gymnastic team, from late in January 
 to early in March, does not interfere with either fall or spring sports.
 
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 The work is under the direction of the gymnasium instructor, with 
 occasional coaching by professionals and men in the graduate schools. 
 The team makes several trips in New England for meets and exhi- 
 bitions, and the insignia " H. G. T." is awarded to any man com- 
 peting in one of the letter meets, of which there are usually from 
 three to five. Recently was established the custom of holding in- 
 terscholastic-freshman gymnastic meets: they will probably be 
 
 THE MARSEILLAISE 
 
 WAVING THE RED AND WHITE HANDKERCHIEFS TO FORM THE "H" 
 ON THE GRAND STAND AT THE YALE GAME 
 
 made annual events. In addition to this there is a novice meet 
 every year for new men, in which according to the usual practice 
 the winners are awarded medals and ribbons. The present facil- 
 ities for gymnastic work are not the best, but the new gymnasium, 
 which now seems assured, will provide the latest apparatus and 
 finest equipment possible. Since all men are given personal at- 
 tention and an equal chance to develop, no man, however inexperi- 
 enced, should hesitate to go out for this team.
 
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 FENCING 
 
 S. F. DAMON, '14 
 
 Home address, 98 Washington Street, Newton, Massachusetts. University Fenc- 
 ing Team, 1912, 1913, Captain, 1913; President, Harvard Musical Review. 
 
 Instruction in fencing begins early in the fall and continues until 
 May. The actual competitions begin about the middle of Janu- 
 ary and end with the intercollegiate meet in the Hotel Astor in 
 New York late in March. From the squad of thirty men who 
 usually take lessons a team of three with one substitute is chosen 
 to represent Harvard in the meets with other colleges and fencing 
 clubs. For those who do not make the team there are a novice 
 
 LOCKER BUILDING ON SOLDIERS' FIELD 
 
 meet, a Freshman meet, and the University championships. Al- 
 though men with previous experience are welcome, it is a note- 
 worthy fact that most Harvard fencers have learned the game while 
 in college, and that four of the fencers on the American team at 
 the Olympic games in 1912 were Harvard men. Fencing is a partic- 
 ularly desirable form of exercise for men in college; it brings all 
 the muscles into play, it develops quickness of the eye, brain, and 
 body; and since it requires only a smooth floor space eighteen feet 
 by three, it is one of the easiest games to keep up after one has 
 left college.
 
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 ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL 
 
 E. L. BARRON, '13 
 
 Home address, Chicago, Illinois. Prepared at Highgate School (England). In 
 college four years as undergraduate. President, Lampoon, 1912-13; Association 
 Football, 1911, 1912, Captain, 1913; Class Crews, 1912; Freshman Red Book. 
 Phoenix Club, Fox Club, Signet Club, Hasty Pudding Club, Stylus Club, Southern 
 Club, Institute of 1770, Memorial Society, Student Council, D. K. E. 
 
 The recent successes of the association football teams indicate 
 the steadily increasing interest in the game at Harvard. Prelimi- 
 nary practice begins in the fall shortly before the close of the foot- 
 
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 ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL OUTSIDE THE STADIUM 
 
 ball season and lasts three or four weeks. This early practice is 
 primarily to bring out new men and to enable the players to work 
 together effectively. At the opening of the spring season the team 
 continues its development and finally plays a series of eight games. 
 Besides the University team there are a Freshman team with a 
 regular schedule and class teams that compete for the class cham- 
 pionship.
 
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 SWIMMING 
 
 J. G. MACDONOUGH, '13 
 
 Home address, Menlo Park, California. Prepared at Beaumont College, Old 
 Windsor, England; Cloyne School, Newport, Rhode Island; Newman School, 
 Hackensack, New Jersey. In college three and one-half years as undergraduate. 
 Swimming Team, 1911-12, Captain, 1912-13. Institute of 1770, D. K. E. 
 
 Interest in swimming was re-awakened in 1911 by the completion 
 of the " Harvard Tank " at the Cambridge Y. M. C. A. and in May, 
 1912, it was recognized as a minor sport. Thus, for the first time 
 since 1910, when swimming was abandoned for lack of sufficient 
 facilities, University and class teams were organized. A regular 
 schedule of meets for both University and Freshman teams is ar- 
 ranged and there is a great future in store for this sport. 
 
 SHOOTING 
 
 E. P. CARVER, '13 
 
 Home address, Brookline, Massachusetts. Prepared at Brookline High School. 
 In college four years as undergraduate. Harvard Rifle Team, 1910-11, and 1912-13; 
 Captain, 1911-12. Freshman Debating Club, Harvard Rifle and Pistol Club, 
 Secretary, 1910-12, President, 1911-12. 
 
 The Harvard Shooting Club and the Harvard Rifle and Pistol 
 Club are the two organizations which cover the field of shooting. 
 The Indoor Intercollegiate League, of which the latter is a prominent 
 member, holds a series of meets, starting in January. The Out- 
 door Intercollegiate Match occurs early in May. The Freshman 
 team has opportunities to compete in other matches during the year.
 
 CHAPTER V 
 
 STUDENT PUBLICATIONS 
 
 W. M. E. WHITELOCK, '13 
 
 Home address, Baltimore, Maryland. Prepared at St. Mark's School. In college 
 four years as undergraduate. Permanent Class Treasurer; Secretary-Treasurer, 
 Sophomore Class, 1910-11; Secretary, Crimson, 1911; Secretary, Union, 1911-12; 
 Manager, University Football Team, 1911 and 1912; Junior Dance Committee; 
 Vice-President, Union, 1912-13; Athletic Committee, 1912-13; Harvard Forum 
 Committee, 1913; Student Council, 1912-13; Editor, Student Council Register, 
 1912-13. Cercle Frangais, Phillips Brooks House Association, St. Mark's School 
 Club, Advocate, Crimson, Memorial Society, Varsity Club, Southern Club, Insti- 
 tute of 1770, D. K. E., Stylus Club, Signet Society, Hasty Pudding Club, O. K. 
 Society, Iroquois Club, Fly Club. 
 
 To the man with literary or journalistic aspirations, Harvard 
 offers ample opportunities. Ten or a dozen student publications 
 furnish a wide range for undergraduate expression and training. 
 Nor does writing for college papers mean a life of confinement; 
 along with the development of literary ability come friends, the 
 knowledge of men, and, to the successful, positions of responsibility 
 and respect in the University. 
 
 The Freshman will perhaps be overwhelmed with the great di- 
 versity of interests which lie before him in this one field alone. The 
 man who comes to college with a definite knowledge of what he 
 wishes to accomplish has a great advantage over his fellows who 
 are not so prepared. In order to give some idea of the various 
 branches of literary activity open to Freshmen, to render possible 
 an early choice of a congenial line of work, to suggest briefly " ways 
 and means," is the purpose of this chapter. 
 
 The Harvard Crimson, published every week day of the college 
 year, is the newspaper of the University. Election to the board of 
 editors requires a twelve weeks' service as a reporter, securing news 
 of University affairs. Freshmen cannot engage in this service until 
 after the mid-year period. A separate competition is also held 
 whereby a limited number of men acquire positions on the board 
 through writing editorials; this competition is, however, not open 
 to Freshmen. To " make " the Crimson is one of the most arduous 
 tasks in college; and a man cannot hope to succeed without intense 
 application and a certain amount of sacrifice of other interests. But, 
 
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 whether one succeeds or not, there is scarcely any undergraduate 
 activity which affords a greater opportunity for the training of 
 self, the study of men, and an intimate knowledge of the University. 
 
 irvard Crimson 
 
 THE 
 
 SOME OF THE COLLEGE PUBLICATIONS 
 
 Finally, the men who rise to the positions of managing editor and 
 president hold offices of power and responsibility in the college 
 world. 
 
 The Lampoon is a fortnightly paper devoted to the humorous 
 side of Cambridge life. The competition commences soon after 
 the opening of college; drawings, jokes, poems, anything which 
 treats lightly of the many weaknesses to which the student body 
 is heir, is the sort of material which is desired by the paper. The 
 man with ready mind and facile pen or pencil can here find a de- 
 lightful and congenial field for self-expression. It is by no means
 
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 easy to obtain a position on the board, as considerable material 
 is required of each candidate before he can be elected; but he does 
 not feel in writing for the Lampoon or, indeed for any other of 
 the college publications that pressure of daily work and limited 
 time which one experiences in writing for the Crimson. 
 
 Just as the Crimson requires efficiency in the gathering and writing 
 of news, just as the Lampoon calls for a sense of humor and the power 
 to express this humor, so the Advocate and Monthly have their dis- 
 tinctive qualifications. The former, published fortnightly, con- 
 tains stories, verse, essays, articles, reviews of books and plays; 
 the latter, appearing every month as its name implies, presents 
 work of somewhat the same nature. Indeed, the two papers are 
 similar in many ways; candidates for both are called out early in 
 the fall; election to either requires the acceptance of six contribu- 
 tions; both afford an opportunity for the discussion of the condition 
 of the University. For which magazine one shall write is a matter 
 of individual taste rather than a question of widely different poli- 
 cies of the two papers. Each represents literary power in the past 
 and both afford opportunity for future literary development. 
 
 The Illustrated Magazine prints articles of immediate interest 
 with appropriate illustrations. Though articles must, of course, 
 be well written and readable, timeliness and news interest rather 
 than great literary form or style are requisite in contributions. 
 As can be readily seen, the Illustrated Magazine opens fields of 
 endeavor not presented by the older papers. Candidates are 
 usually expected to have had four articles published before they 
 can be elected as editors. 
 
 Besides the above-mentioned papers, for which no specialized 
 knowledge is essential, there are two publications open to under- 
 graduate competition which are devoted to particular subjects. 
 The Musical Review, a monthly magazine, aims to furnish able 
 comment on the development of music and offers a unique oppor- 
 tunity to men of musical ability. 
 
 The Harvard Engineering Journal is an illustrated quarterly, 
 devoted to the interests of engineering in Harvard University, 
 and is the official organ of the Association of Harvard Engineers. 
 The Journal is edited by students in the School of Engineering, 
 but the articles are all written by practising engineers, the aim 
 being to produce a publication which shall serve as a link between 
 the work of the graduates, and the engineering activities of the
 
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 University. Candidates must be approved for their general fitness 
 by the Council of the School of Engineering. 
 
 The Law Review is, of course, open to graduate students in that 
 school only. The editorial board is elected from among the men 
 who stand highest in the second and third year classes. 
 
 The foregoing publications are to a greater or less degree literary. 
 There are three others which do not afford any literary training 
 but which are valuable for other important qualities. The Fresh- 
 
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 man Red Book appears in the spring and aims to present annually 
 a record of the Freshman class. Editors are chosen after a com- 
 petition in charge of a Freshman committee. 
 
 The Senior Class each year before graduation issues its Class 
 Album which gives a complete record and history of the class during 
 its four years in college. Naturally, however, only Seniors are 
 interested in the editing and publishing of this book.
 
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 Finally, the University Register is a book of over five hundred 
 pages published annually by the Student Council. It furnishes a 
 record of all branches of Harvard activities and is also a general 
 reference book of college clubs, teams, and other organizations. 
 Like the Red Book, the Register offers an opportunity for efficiency 
 rather than literary training. Competition for the board begins in 
 the Sophomore year. 
 
 In addition to the editorial positions which are open to students 
 on these various publications, every paper and book must have a 
 staff of business editors. The competition for business editor of 
 a publication affords excellent business training. And to the 
 man who does not possess literary ability and yet is ambitious for 
 a position on a student publication, the business end offers a ready 
 solution of the problem. 
 
 These, then, are the opportunities which Harvard publications 
 offer, a wide field, in which any man interested must surely find 
 something worthy an effort. Though the first purpose of college is 
 education, though a man's first duty is to acquire that education, 
 still, a preparation for life based solely on college work is in danger 
 of not being broad. Friendships, the mingling with one's fellow 
 men, the absorbing of new ideas, the power of cooperation, the 
 ability to serve others as well as oneself these are things which 
 it is hard for books alone to teach. Student publications afford an 
 opportunity to acquire these advantages, along with a certain 
 amount of literary training.
 
 CHAPTER VI 
 
 THE HARVARD UNION 
 
 H. R. HITCHCOCK, JR., '14 
 
 Home address, Pukoo, Molokai, Hawaii. Vice-President, The Harvard Union, 
 University Baseball Team, University Swimming Team, University Football Team, 
 1913-14. Institute of 1770, Phoenix, Hasty Pudding, etc. 
 
 THE great social centre not only for the members of Harvard Col- 
 lege but for the men in the graduate schools is the generous gift 
 of Major H. L. Higginson, '55, The Harvard Union. The building 
 
 THE UNION LIBRARY 
 
 is located just across Quincy Street from the Yard. In the great 
 living room of the Union are held weekly lectures and talks by 
 prominent visitors to the University. These evening entertain- 
 ments are a valuable part of the student life of the University. For 
 
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 the class smokers and the " pop " concerts of the musical clubs the 
 Living Room is set with small tables and chairs and a stage for the 
 entertainers. The political rallies at election times and the mass 
 meetings preceding the Yale Football Game pack the spacious room 
 with enthusiastic crowds of students. It is even planned to hold 
 in the Living Room the various student musical shows and dramas 
 to which members of the Union were given the courtesy of compli- 
 mentary tickets last year. The room is well adapted for the large 
 dinners, pageants, and other functions which take place there. 
 
 LIVING ROOM OF THE HARVARD UNION 
 
 But the Union is essentially a club. Every student in the Uni- 
 versity is eligible to membership on payment of the small annual 
 fee of ten dollars. Indeed, President Lowell has rightly said that 
 no man has an excuse for not belonging to the Union; for a man 
 who sincerely wishes to enter into the life of the University in this 
 way will find upon application that if he is unable to pay the sum 
 of ten dollars somebody else will be ready to stand the expense. 
 Although the intimacy of some of the smaller clubs does not exist 
 at the Union, one is sure to meet acquaintances here and spend 
 some of the best lounging hours of his college life.
 
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 The Union is equipped not only with rooms devoted to the pur- 
 poses of a club, but with rooms designed to be the headquarters of 
 various undergraduate activities. Of the former, the dining-rooms 
 and the library are particularly attractive. The large a la carte 
 dining-room and a smaller room for members who " sign on " by 
 the week are on the first floor: directly above is a beautiful room 
 to which members have the privilege of inviting ladies. The food 
 and service at these restaurants have made them very popular. 
 
 LADIES' DINING ROOM IN THE UNION 
 
 At the other end of the building, on the second floor, is the delight- 
 ful library consisting of a cosy book-room and two well-lighted read- 
 ing rooms furnished with comfortable chairs and tables. Below 
 the library, on the first floor, one finds the game room provided with 
 card tables, chess-boards, etc., the periodical room well supplied 
 with the best publications, and a writing or study room a quiet 
 and retired place. In the basement is a large pool room, where 
 tournaments are held at various times during the year. 
 
 As we have said, the Union is the home of many college activities. 
 The Harvard Crimson has its sanctum and press in the basement. 
 The Advocate and the Monthly have sanctums on the third floor -
 
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 attractive rooms wherein are held meetings of the editorial boards 
 and receptions. The athletic trophies of the college are kept in 
 the Trophy Room, often the scene of dinners. At the Union, too, 
 is the headquarters of the Harvard Federation of Territorial Clubs. 
 Recently furnished and decorated at great expense, its club room is 
 
 TROPHY ROOM IN THE UNION 
 
 now one of the most beautiful in Cambridge. Here the constituent 
 Territorial Clubs hold their meetings, dances, and dinners. The 
 privilege of joining in the festivities of one's territorial club is an 
 additional incentive to joining the Union. The Union is, in fact, 
 the great hearthstone of the college. It is the social and demo- 
 cratic center of Harvard life.
 
 CHAPTER VII 
 
 CLUBS 
 
 P. M. HOLLISTER, '13 
 
 Home address, 465 East Fulton Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Prepared at 
 Grand Rapids High School and Middlesex School. In college four years as under- 
 graduate. Ibis, Lampoon, October, 1912, to February, 1913; Freshman Football; 
 Freshman Baseball; University Football, 1912. Delphic Club, Phoenix Club, 
 Hasty Pudding Club, Signet Society, O. K. Society, D. K. E., Institute of 1770, 
 Dramatic Club, Stylus Club, Crimson. 
 
 A. J. LOWREY, '13 
 
 Home address, Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii. Prepared at Oahu College (Punahon 
 School) . In college four years as undergraduate. Vice-President, Sophomore Class; 
 Chairman, Junior Finance Committee; Second Marshal, Senior Class; President, 
 Student Council; President, Phillips Brooks House; Freshman Baseball Team; 
 Freshman Tennis Team; University Tennis Team, 1910-11, 1911-12, Captain, 
 1912-13; University Association Football, 1911-12, 1912-13. Fox Club, Signet 
 Society, Phoenix Club, O. K Society, Western Club, Hasty Pudding Club, 
 Institute of 1770, D. K. E. 
 
 THE number of clubs in Harvard has been the subject of no little 
 jesting on the part of undergraduates and graduates who forget for 
 the time being that the birth of a new interest leads naturally to 
 the formation of a group to pursue it; who forget that the " club " 
 may be merely a unit of association for the pursuit of a particular 
 idea, and not a secluded organization of men who are simply con- 
 genial socially. The usual form of the joke is " Let's form another 
 club and hang another medal on our walls." 
 
 We haven't time for the jokers. More serious-minded critics 
 say there are too many clubs in college, but they do not specify 
 for what there are too many. If the existence of so many different 
 interests seems cumbersome for the moment, they should realize 
 that the very strength of the college is the widespread undergradu- 
 ate interest in every direction. They should realize that no man 
 need come to Cambridge and be without the facilities to follow his 
 own taste, to develop his own talent, or to conceive a new en- 
 thusiasm which he never knew before lay asleep in him. 
 
 These organizations are often classified and divided into eight 
 groups: social, scientific, language and culture (a too pretentious 
 word), musical, debating, political, dramatic, and territorial. We 
 
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 have no intention of dazzling any one with the array of them. 
 We know that no man will display fitful flashes of interest in various 
 directions only to let them die out as soon as he has made a club 
 unless he is goaded by a false ambition. And we want to make 
 it clear that real interest is the primary qualification for entrance 
 into any one of these organizations. The disappointing man in 
 the college community is the man who loses his keenness after he 
 is in a club, and who is not always entirely to blame, since member- 
 ship in two or three clubs must divide his time and prevent his 
 
 PI ETA CLUB HOUSE 
 
 paying entire allegiance to the one for which he is best suited. 
 Let us consider these interests in the order mentioned above, which 
 is purely arbitrary. 
 
 Social. The social life of the University centers about the 
 spacious club house of the Harvard Union described fully on 
 page 58 of this book. Among the other purely social organizations 
 are the Institute of 1770, the Pi Eta Club, the Fraternities, certain 
 sectional clubs, the " waiting clubs," the final clubs, and the Hasty 
 Pudding Club. The Institute, an ancient and worthy society, 
 elects 100 men from the Sophomore Class, the first eighty of whom
 
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 become automatically members of the D.K.E. The Institute mem- 
 bers are chosen in tens beginning in October or November, and 
 the elections continue every week or two. 
 
 The Pi Eta Club, with an active membership of 100 men, elects 
 the majority of its members from the Sophomore and Junior Classes. 
 This Club lays stress on the democratic character of the organization. 
 Its elaborate musical shows, given in its own theatre, are often 
 worthy of high praise. Notable, too, is the dramatic success of the 
 Delta Upsilon, an active chapter of the national fraternity, which 
 for several years has presented effective revivals of the Elizabethan 
 drama. It is the most prominent of the numerous fraternities in 
 the University. The fraternity houses are in most cases run as 
 clubs; i. e., although men eat and spend their free time in the 
 houses, they do not actually use them as dormitories. The South- 
 ern and Western Clubs are also of this nature. 
 
 There are four " waiting clubs ": the Iroquois, the Kalumet, the 
 Phoenix, and the Sphinx. Men are elected and taken into these 
 organizations after Christmas in their Freshman year. As the 
 name "waiting club" implies, they serve merely as temporary 
 quarters until men are elected to a final club. The final clubs 
 are the A.D.; the Delphic; the Digamma known as the Fox; 
 the Fly; the Owl; the Porcellian and the Zeta Psi called Spee. 
 Fifteen members are elected to each during the latter part of the 
 Sophomore year. 
 
 These social clubs, like the other clubs in college with more defined 
 interests, are properly considered as a means for development 
 and friendship, but not as a goal for the " social climber's " ambition. 
 The fact that many prominent men are not members of the prom- 
 inent clubs casts no reflection on the men or on the clubs. The 
 social club at Harvard holds the same position that a men's club 
 holds in any city. 
 
 Scientific. - - There are two clubs of men interested in chemistry, 
 one a branch of a national chemistry association, and one local. 
 At their meetings they are addressed by prominent chemists, as a 
 rule on phases of the science which are of unusual or contemporary 
 prominence. The botanical club has about twenty members. A 
 club of the same size is composed of men who are specializing in 
 landscape architecture. A club of drawing and architecture men 
 has less than a dozen members. The engineering society and two 
 mathematical clubs have a large membership in the graduate schools, 
 mostly of men who are taking advanced work. The natural his-
 
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 tory society is an undergraduate body with a score of members, 
 and the anthropological and zoological organizations are made up 
 of both undergraduates and graduates. The mining club is a 
 graduate's association, for the most part. The wireless club is 
 made up almost entirely of undergraduates. The scientific clubs 
 are necessarily closely affiliated with class-room interests, and as is 
 the case in the language and " culture " clubs, members of the 
 Faculty are sometimes prominent members of the clubs. 
 
 Language and Culture. --The Cercle Frangais, for members 
 of the University who speak French, and the Deutscher Verein, 
 for those who speak German, are both large; they form a link 
 between the college and the older countries, devote considerable 
 time to sociability and conversation, and present a play each year 
 in the foreign tongue. The Circolo Italiano and Sociedad Espanola 
 are similar organizations, though not large. There are clubs made 
 up of men who are interested in the literature of the modern lan- 
 guages, and in Greek and Roman, Hebraic, and Scandinavian 
 culture. 
 
 Musical. Harvard has many thriving musical clubs. The glee, 
 mandolin, and banjo clubs take men by competition, and the orches- 
 tra, called the Pierian Sodality, holds a similar open competition for 
 membership. These clubs give concerts in Cambridge, and make 
 trips to other cities. The Musical Club proper is composed of men 
 interested in music for its own sake, among them several members 
 of the Pierian. In connection with these clubs may be mentioned 
 the opera association, membership in which entitles one to secure 
 seats at the Boston Opera House at reduced rates. 
 
 Debating. --The lively interest in public speaking and debating 
 is guided by the Debating Council, an upper class organization, the 
 Freshman Debating Society, the Delta Sigma Rho and Tau Kappa 
 Alpha societies, and the Speakers' Club. The last-named club 
 periodically conducts a valuable open discussion on college topics. 
 
 Political. Interest in political clubs runs high in campaign 
 years. The Republicans, Democrats, Progressives and Socialists 
 have their organizations, of which the Socialist Club is most steadily 
 busy. Members of these clubs engage in practical campaign work. 
 
 Dramatic. -- The Dramatic Club focusses serious interest in the 
 drama, offers each year a prize for original plays, and presents 
 them with actors and stage hands from its own membership. Three 
 primarily social clubs, Pi Eta, the Hasty Pudding Club, and Delta 
 Upsilon, also produce plays annually; the first two usually give an
 
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 original musical comedy, and the last an Elizabethan revival. 
 Dramatic ability influences the qualification for membership in 
 these organizations. 
 
 Territorial. The territorial clubs, embracing organizations of 
 students from various sections of this and other countries, have 
 been treated in Chapter I. The Cosmopolitan Club should be 
 mentioned here. It is an organization of men from every part of 
 the world formed to foster the cosmopolitan interest which must 
 arise from such association. 
 
 This army of clubs and societies and leagues and associations 
 may stagger you if you look at them all at once, but taken singly 
 they make the best tonic Harvard can give. These clubs are all 
 for men who want to open their eyes, to learn more, to investigate, 
 whether they call it work or play. It is not a sombre sort of in- 
 vestigation; it is as serious as any pursuit undertaken willingly 
 must be; but it is made buoyant by that very vigor of enthusiasm 
 which gave rise to it. 
 
 There is a whip in Harvard for every man's hobby.
 
 CHAPTER VIII 
 
 LOCATION AND ENVIRONMENT 
 
 GILBERT ELLIOTT, JR., '13 
 
 Home address, 313 Sterling Place, Brooklyn, New York. Prepared at Adelphi 
 Academy. In college four years as undergraduate. President of Harvard Musical 
 Review, 1912-13; Chairman, Entertainment Committee, Harvard Musical Club, 
 1912-13; Dramatic Club, Lampoon, St. Paul's Society, Brooklyn Club. 
 
 No young man, desirous of a broad education, should select a col- 
 lege because it suits him in some one of its features. Course of 
 study, faculty, athletics, the character of its graduates, and numer- 
 ous other points should all be weighed carefully in making a choice. 
 
 The location of a college is one of the things which of necessity 
 assumes a place of prime importance when its advantages and dis- 
 advantages are under discussion. There are few institutions of 
 learning which have nothing to boast in this regard. One has the 
 pure air and magnificent scenery of the mountains, another is adja- 
 cent to large mining and engineering projects; a third is in the midst 
 of a large city ; and so on : each is particularly adapted to the needs 
 of certain types of individuals. Which location is best suited for 
 any young man, and whether he is willing to allow advantages of 
 location to make up for certain other obvious defects, or vice-versa, 
 is a question which he must decide for himself. The important 
 thing is this: to keep clearly in mind how much the individuality 
 of a college is dependent on its location, and how strongly this 
 affects the very spirit of the institution and consequently the char- 
 acter of its students. 
 
 Strictly speaking, Harvard College is not a city college. Though 
 but eight minutes' ride by subway from Boston, it is far enough re- 
 moved to be out of earshot of the noise and bustle characteristic of 
 all great cities. In this respect Harvard is fortunate, for it has all 
 the advantages of a great city without any of its disadvantages. 
 
 The proximity of Boston and its surrounding towns nevertheless 
 affects the Harvard student body to a very marked degree. To 
 begin with, there are the Boston and Cambridge people. Oppor- 
 tunities to meet them at social functions are numerous enough; 
 and better still, most of them are anxious to meet and entertain in
 
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 their homes the undergraduate coming from a distant part of the 
 country. If he exhibit but a spark of good breeding, he will find 
 it comparatively easy to make their acquaintance and to accept 
 their hospitality. The influence of these people, living as they do, 
 in the midst of the literary, scientific, and artistic traditions of 
 Emerson, Longfellow, Lowell, Hawthorne, MacDowell, Norton, 
 Agassiz, and James, affects those who come in contact with them; 
 in fact, it is only the unreceptive student who can go through Har- 
 vard without learning to know about these men and to admire the 
 
 ROOM IN HOLLIS HALL OCCUPIED BY EMERSON, 
 EVERETT, AND TIIORB:AU 
 
 things for which they strove. The keen appreciation of literature, 
 science, and art which these New Englanders exhibit, is a great 
 stimulus to students studying at Harvard, no matter in what field 
 their interests lie. 
 
 Of even greater import are the general opportunities for study 
 which Boston affords. With prospective college students it must 
 always be a serious problem whether they are willing to forego, 
 except at the long intervals of vacation, opportunities to attend 
 theatres, opera, and concerts, to visit museums and large libraries,
 
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 69 
 
 and to take part in religious and social settlement work. To re- 
 linquish these activities may seem a small matter; but if the high 
 school or preparatory school graduate will remember that four of 
 the most important and impressionable years of life are spent at 
 college, and that the formation of broad tastes and ideas is even 
 more important than the digestion of a certain number of facts, he 
 
 HARVARD HALL (FROM AX OLD PRINT) 
 
 will realize that the opportunities offered by a large city are not so 
 superfluous after all, and are in some cases an absolute necessity. 
 
 Harvard makes use of Boston's advantages in innumerable ways. 
 Although the Harvard Library is the largest of our university 
 libraries (the third largest in the country), students in advanced 
 courses find it necessary again and again to use the Boston Public 
 Library. It matters not whether a student's interests lie in Eco- 
 nomics, or in music: Boston can aid him. The economist studies 
 the actual business conditions and investigates the economic status 
 of the poorer sections of the city, while the musician turns Boston's 
 numerous concerts and recitals to good advantage. The students 
 in the Fine Arts and Architecture spend hours in the Boston Mu- 
 seum of Art. The student of the drama finds attendance at certain 
 Boston productions part of his prescribed work. Harvard has an
 
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 Opera Association of over one thousand members, who secure seats 
 at reduced rates at the Boston Opera House. Students with a 
 good eye to business solicit advertisements from Boston firms for 
 the college papers; engineering students visit and report on local 
 engineering projects; students in botany visit the exhibitions at 
 Horticultural Hall; and those who are preparing to enter a medical 
 school witness operations at the Massachusetts General and other 
 hospitals. One might continue ad infinitum. These activities 
 form a regular part of Harvard life. As a result of location they 
 have become a real factor in the college; Harvard without Boston 
 would be almost unthinkable. 
 
 The opportunity of hearing and meeting distinguished persons 
 who naturally visit Harvard during their stay in Boston is one of 
 the most gratifying advantages of location. Contact, even in the 
 most formal way and for the briefest period, with persons who have 
 become distinguished in some branch of work, is a source of the 
 greatest stimulation to a student interested in the same subject. 
 The list of those who come in a single winter is a long one. Among 
 those who came during 1912-13 were Henri Bergson, philosopher; 
 Sir William Osier, physician and scientist; Alfred Noyes, poet; 
 Louis Aubert, composer; Arnold Bennett, novelist; George Arliss, 
 actor; Rabindranath Tagore, Indian philosopher and poet; and 
 many others of equal prominence.
 
 CHAPTER IX 
 
 A TYPICAL UNDERGRADUATE'S EXPENSES AT HARVARD 
 
 H. B. GILL, '13 
 
 Home address, Lockport, New York. Prepared at Lockport High School. In 
 college three years as undergraduate. Student Council (Chairman, Committee on 
 Organizations), 1912-13; Editor-in-Chief, Illustrated, 1912-13; University Regis- 
 ter, 1911-12 (Committee in Charge, 1911-12); Speakers' Club (Secretary, 1910-11, 
 President, 1911-12); Harvard Forum (Committee in Charge), 1912-13; 1913 Fresh- 
 man Debating Team (Captain); Christian Association (Cabinet, 1911-12); Class 
 Day Usher, 1912. Harvard College Scholarship, 1912-13; Bowdoin Prize Essay 
 (honorable mention), 1912; Speakers' Club Contest in Extemporaneous Speaking 
 (First Prize), 1912. University Debating Council, 1913, Debating Society, Council 
 of Federated Clubs, S. P. Club, Progressive Club, Men's League for Woman Suffrage, 
 Union, P. O. P. Club, Weld Boat Club, Memorial Society, Methodist Club. 
 
 THE pamphlet on " Students' Expenses and College Aids," which 
 is published by the University and may be had for the asking, 
 contains most of the points regarding finances which any boy 
 who thinks of coming to Harvard with limited funds wants to know. 
 It is there stated that a student can keep his total expenditure for 
 one year down to $354 -- for tuition $150, infirmary fee, $4; 
 board, $150; and room, $50. For the boy who desires to get the 
 full richness out of four years at Harvard, there are many addi- 
 tional expenses which, as the pamphlet goes on to say, " a student 
 will surely be obliged to meet, such as expenses for books and sta- 
 tionery, clothing, washing, laboratory charges, furniture, fuel and 
 light." The work of one boy from Colorado, who came to Harvard 
 with practically no money and no reputation, and who " made 
 good " in scholarship, in athletics, and with his fellows is probably 
 the most significant part of the publication. 
 
 At the same time, the social and financial success of the 'varsity 
 captain referred to in the pamphlet was undoubtedly due to his 
 exceptional physical prowess. If a man can attain prominence in 
 athletics, while maintaining his academic standard, as did this big, 
 genial captain, whom some of us cannot help recognizing, he can 
 be sure of a place among his fellows socially and the newspapers 
 will pay him liberally for his writing. The average man who comes 
 to Harvard, however, cannot hope to do all that this man did. It 
 is an exceptional man who becomes captain in a major sport. The 
 
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 72 HARVARD OF TODAY 
 
 man with little money, no reputation, only a normal physical and 
 mental development, but with a burning desire for an education at 
 Harvard, is the man who is really confronted with the financial 
 problem at college. This is the man by and for whom this article 
 is written. 
 
 The expenses of a college education vary according to each man's 
 idea of what constitutes a college education. The typical man in 
 planning for college looks forward, and rightly, to four years of 
 
 CLAVERLY HALL DORMITORY 
 
 ideal life, in which fellowship and play and leisure to think or to 
 give expression to his dearest fancies are, or should be, as important 
 a part as books and theses and lectures. Of such a well-rounded 
 college life, however, many students find it necessary to omit some 
 elements entirely, or to combine various elements in order to make 
 any of them possible. 
 
 From the pamphlet a boy may easily estimate what the absolute 
 necessaries of life at Harvard will cost. He may board for $150 
 a year by eating at Foxcroft House or at some private boarding- 
 house; but he will be cutting off more than $50 worth of good 
 fellowship by not eating at Memorial Hall, the large college dining- 
 hall, a meeting place for the whole University, where board costs 
 about $200 a year. He may find a college room for $100 which he
 
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 may share with a room-mate, but a comfortable room in a comfort- 
 able dormitory, where he will find good fellowship, will cost him 
 nearer $75 for his share. Including the infirmary fee of $4, we find 
 that the total for these four items is nearer $429 than $354. 
 
 For other items, such as books and stationery, clothing, washing, 
 laboratory charges, furniture, fuel and light, a student can hardly 
 allow less than $140 annually, distributed somewhat as follows: 
 
 Books and stationery $15 
 
 Clothes 80 
 
 Laundry 30 
 
 Furniture 15 
 
 $140 
 
 Laboratory charges will depend on the courses taken by the in- 
 dividual. In a comfortable room, fuel and light are included. 
 Eighty dollars for clothes is a conservative estimate. It pre-sup- 
 poses that the student already possesses a " dress suit," which is 
 after all necessary for a college man; and it allows for a good suit 
 of clothes lasting more than one season. It includes $5 for pressing 
 and repairing. Laundry at $30 may be further reduced if one lives 
 near enough to Cambridge (say within a radius of 500 miles) to 
 make it worth while to take advantage of the express companies' 
 laundry rates. He may then send his laundry home to be included 
 with the family washing at a negligible cost. Sixty dollars for 
 furniture during four years is also very conservative, $15 being 
 charged against each year's account as above. The supply of the 
 Furniture Loan Association is not large enough to make it possible 
 for all who apply to be completely fitted out. For the first year, 
 however, a man may rent some pieces of furniture and buy others. 
 Then at the end of his Freshman year, he can easily buy enough 
 furniture from men who are leaving college to make his rooms very 
 comfortable. 
 
 But the man who is planning to get a many-sided college educa- 
 tion will want more than the necessaries of life. He will need 
 funds to enable him to take part with his fellows in their various 
 activities. At Harvard there are many opportunities for living 
 such a well-rounded college life at a minimum expense. In the 
 first place, no man at Harvard is handicapped because he does not 
 or cannot afford to belong to an expensive social club. The breadth 
 of a man's life here is not rated according to the social clubs which 
 he makes. Any man who shows himself to be efficient and con-
 
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 genial in the most ordinary activities a multitude of which are 
 given in the University Register will gain a recognition that 
 will bring him the friendships and experiences that give college life 
 many of its dearest associations. Membership in any of these 
 organizations usually involves dues amounting to $2 annually, al- 
 though some dues range as high as $15, according to the nature of 
 the club. In these "registered clubs," as they are called, Harvard 
 
 WESTMOELY HALL DORMITORY 
 
 offers to the man who must be economical in his expenditures 
 advantages that are seldom found elsewhere. From $5 to $10 
 would be an average sum for such dues for a man whose interests 
 are normally varied. 
 
 In at least two interests in college, every man should count on 
 sharing. No one should plan to come to Harvard without setting 
 aside $2 annually for membership in Phillips Brooks House, for 
 here one not only will learn the joy in service but also will meet 
 many of the men most worth while in the college. Ten dollars 
 annually for membership in the Union should also be put aside. 
 Here, at smokers and readings and like occasions is found much that 
 enriches the social life of the undergraduate; and here are offered 
 to the student the advantages of a large and well-appointed club- 
 house. In all, an average man will get at Harvard for about
 
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 $20 annually a world of opportunity for self-expression and fel- 
 lowship. 
 
 Membership dues in social clubs will of course add to this amount. 
 But this expense in some of the clubs is actually varied to suit the 
 member's ability to pay. For the average man these dues will not 
 amount to more than $50 to $75 annually. Probably $75 will 
 cover the annual dues and expenses incurred by the typical man 
 
 TYPICAL STUDENT STUDY 
 
 who enjoys the advantages of club life at Harvard, including every- 
 thing from the smallest registered club to the Union and the purely 
 social club. 
 
 Furthermore, every man should spend something for athletics. 
 He will need $5 for membership in the Athletic Association, which 
 will admit him to nearly all home games, and about $5 additional 
 for locker privileges and outfit at one of the boat houses, at Sol- 
 diers' Field, or at the gymnasium. During his college course he 
 will want at least two tickets to the Yale football games in Cam- 
 bridge at $2 each and will make the trip to New Haven at least 
 once at a minimum expense of about $8. This makes an average 
 expenditure for Yale games of about $3 a year. To cover possible 
 track and hockey games, $3 more per year might be added. For 
 even the minimum of $16 a year, then, a man may have at Harvard 
 some of the greatest privileges in athletics which may be obtained 
 anywhere in the world.
 
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 Nor should other pleasures be entirely omitted. To get the most 
 out of four years at Harvard, a man cannot afford to neglect the 
 unusual social opportunities which are offered in and about Cam- 
 bridge and Boston. Again, if a Harvard man neglects to hear good 
 music and see good drama occasionally, to visit places of historic 
 interest and to enjoy some of the life of a large metropolis, he misses 
 a large part of the opportunities which give Harvard men their 
 breadth of vision and their depth of thought. A man may spend 
 in this way much or little, according to his taste. If a man care- 
 fully plans his expenditures for amusements, including dances, 
 theatre, etc., he may estimate the cost of these pleasures at about 
 $120 a year. 
 
 To summarize then, the man who seeks to get the most out of a 
 college course at Harvard at a really economical cost will spend on 
 the average about $780, distributed as follows: 
 
 Tuition $150 
 
 Room, including light and heat 75 
 
 Infirmary fee 4 
 
 Board 200 
 
 Books and Stationery 15 
 
 Clothes 80 
 
 Laundry 30 
 
 Furniture (average) 15 
 
 Club dues and expenses 75 
 
 Athletics 16 
 
 General and Incidental 120 
 
 $780 
 
 (To this sum must also be added travelling expenses, which will 
 vary with the individual and may be easily determined by him.) 
 
 It must be borne in mind that this total of $780 plus travelling 
 expenses probably represents the actual expenses of no one Harvard 
 undergraduate. It is not even the average expenditure of Harvard 
 men. (After all, neither of these estimates would be worth much 
 to a prospective Freshman.) An annual estimated expense of $780 
 represents a sum such as a typical undergraduate might need to 
 give him a well-rounded college course at Harvard. Some men 
 spend much more than this and get much less for their money; 
 other men of unusual ability spend less and get much more for their 
 outlay; still others spend less than this amount and content them- 
 selves with receiving less in return, glad to be able to get all the 
 advantages which they can possibly afford. To which class any
 
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 one man belongs and how much of a complete college course he 
 can afford to enjoy are questions which each man must decide for 
 himself. The aim of this article is merely to set a mode or norm 
 such as represents the typical expenditures of a college man who 
 desires a complete college education but who must count the cost 
 carefully a total from which each man may estimate his own 
 case. To do this, arbitrary figures necessarily had to be assumed. 
 They are, however, based upon the actual experience of such men 
 as this article is intended to help. 
 
 How, then, can the College fairly urge men to come to Harvard 
 with no more than possibly $400 capital ? It is partly because 
 there are so many opportunities for energetic men to earn their way 
 here. These many opportunities are listed in detail in the official 
 college publication mentioned above. In regard to them, however, 
 the following suggestion may be useful. 
 
 If it is necessary to help pay one's way through Harvard, it is 
 best to do it by specializing in some college activity. The man 
 who becomes very proficient in athletics is always in demand as a 
 writer for the newspapers, as an instructor in boys' camps, or as a 
 companion for younger boys during summer vacations. The man 
 who gains a reputation for ability in his courses may secure very 
 remunerative employment in tutoring, or may win a scholarship. 
 The editor of a college paper has naturally better chances to obtain 
 paying journalistic work than one who is not in touch \vith under- 
 graduate life. In such ways a man's capacity for earning is largely 
 increased and his means of earning, rather than detracting from his 
 college life, simply serves to add to his enjoyment of it. 
 
 To the man who thinks he can never be an athlete, a scholar, or 
 an editor, the college still says, " Come." He may have to forego 
 some of the good things in a college education which the more 
 brilliant will achieve; but if he is brave and determined, he will 
 find that the college possesses unusual opportunities to help him 
 get all that he can. 
 
 And just here some men make a great mistake. Because they 
 are poor, they believe that they may not ask for a complete college 
 education and by " complete " is meant a full, well-rounded four 
 years' life, costing possibly $780 annually. The college stands ready 
 to give men who believe themselves worthy of a college education 
 the opportunity to get it. It is for men of this mettle that the 
 scholarship and loan funds are established, and it is at Harvard
 
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 considered an honor to be named among their beneficiaries. Har- 
 vard is proud that its graduates are men of broad vision. It wants 
 its undergraduates to have such a preparation in college that they 
 will be representative graduates. If the boys who desire a real 
 Harvard education will offer their very best, Harvard stands ready 
 to give them in return, not mere book-knowledge, but the chance 
 to enjoy the richness of a full college course.
 
 CHAPTER X 
 
 PROFESSIONAL AND GRADUATE SCHOOLS 
 
 EXCELLENT opportunities for advanced study at Harvard are 
 afforded by the six graduate schools. Generally speaking, an A.B. 
 or S.B. degree or sufficient specialized preparation is requisite for 
 entrance, and the regular term of study varies with the different 
 schools from one to three years. In planning a college course it 
 is well to look ahead, and it may be that the following information 
 from students in the several schools will be helpful. The University 
 publishes separate pamphlets describing the schools, which may be 
 obtained on application. 
 
 THE MEDICAL SCHOOL 
 
 LAWRENCE K. LUNT, 3 M., A.B. 1909 
 
 Home address, 431 North Cascade Avenue, Colorado Springs, Colorado. Cosmo- 
 politan Club, Round Table, Hasty Pudding Club, Institute of 1770, Memorial So- 
 ciety, O. K. Society, Phoenix, Signet, Student Council, Crew, 1907, 1908, 1909. 
 
 The Harvard Medical School has had a long and honorable 
 history. Beginning in a little building about the size of a small 
 country school-house, it has several times outgrown its quarters 
 till in 1906 it was moved to its present magnificent situation. The 
 School now has an equipment that is not equalled by any medical 
 school in this country. The five gray marble structures connected 
 by hall-ways and porches make a group which every passerby 
 admires and which fills with pride the hearts of those who work 
 within them. 
 
 The admission requirements are, generally speaking, a degree in 
 arts or science from an approved college or scientific school, or two 
 years of undergraduate work with a reading knowledge of French 
 or German and certain work in scientific subjects. Under special 
 conditions others may obtain admission by receiving the consent 
 of the Faculty. 
 
 It is, however, the men who direct the work, rather than the 
 magnificence of the equipment, that make a school great. A glance 
 at the list of the Faculty of Medicine will show the names of men 
 of national and international reputation, who are working in these
 
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 laboratories and directing the students who are under them. They 
 are men of inspiring character and are always ready to help their 
 students. We are proud of our equipment, but we are prouder still 
 of the staff of men who direct the School's work, and who have made 
 notable contributions to the advancement of Medical Science. 
 
 The hospitals and institutions which are grouped about the 
 Harvard Medical School or are near at hand in Boston afford 
 
 MEDICAL SCHOOL BUILDINGS 
 
 unsurpassed facilities for clinical instruction. These institutions 
 contain nearly two thousand patients whose cases are available 
 for teaching purposes. 
 
 Aside from the regular assigned work, there are many opportu- 
 nities in spare hours for the student who is ambitious to do special 
 research under the immediate personal direction and supervision of 
 the Professors of the various departments. This kind of work is 
 intensely interesting and its value to the student cannot be over- 
 estimated. 
 
 The Medical School is not lacking in social life. The Student's 
 Association, to which every student of the School belongs, holds 
 two meetings a year at which some distinguished person speaks. 
 The meeting at the beginning of the academic year is a reception 
 to the new men. Each class has an occasional smoker and an 
 annual banquet, which are always enjoyable. Late in the spring 
 the School grants a holiday and all the classes join in a picnic down 
 Boston harbor.
 
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 THE LAW SCHOOL 
 
 HARVEY H. BUNDY, 3 L., YALE UNIVERSITY, 1909 
 
 Graduate of Yale University; Editor, Harvard Law Review; Chairman, Board of 
 Student Advisers. 
 
 The Harvard Law School is the oldest of the existing law schools 
 in the country. It has attained its present position among law 
 schools by the high professional standing of its graduates and by 
 the invention of a method of legal instruction called the " case 
 system." Before the administration of Dean Langdell, eminent 
 jurists had taught the students by lectures supplemented by the 
 study of legal treatises. This system did not give training and 
 facility in the actual methods of the best legal practice. A prac- 
 tising lawyer presents his case with citation of other cases, and his 
 final authority and test of law lie largely in court decisions. Dean 
 Langdell therefore introduced a system of instruction whereby the 
 student was trained to use as original authorities the published de- 
 cisions of courts. The success of the " case system " has caused 
 it to spread through the law schools of the country. 
 
 This method of teaching law requires a large and fully equipped 
 library. The Harvard Law School has such a library. Indeed, 
 Professor Dicey of Oxford has pronounced it " The most perfect 
 collection of legal records in the English speaking world." 
 
 Lawyers bred at Harvard have proved to be so sound and success- 
 ful in practice that the School has increased rapidly in size. Dur- 
 ing the past year, there were enrolled in the School seven hundred 
 and forty -five men including representatives from one hundred and 
 thirty-three colleges and all sections of the country. These men 
 represent the best types of college graduate and the average ability 
 is extraordinarily high. Such a student body is splendidly equipped 
 to make the most of the study of the law by means of the case 
 system. 
 
 The fact that a man who has made a good record at the Harvard 
 Law School has a certain piestige when he seeks a position after 
 graduation, may partly account for the keen competition for the 
 leading places in the class. Unlike most undergraduate scholastic 
 competitions, the struggle is not confined to a few of the more 
 studiously inclined. 
 
 Every man is given an opportunity to join a law club and almost 
 all avail themselves of the chance. A club is composed of eight 
 men from each class. The members of the first year class argue
 
 82 HARVARD OF TODAY 
 
 cases before an upper classman who presides as chief justice. Later 
 in the course a competition is held between the clubs, for which 
 prizes are given. The law clubs have proved valuable in teaching 
 men how to search the authorities and present an argument effec- 
 tively. 
 
 The Harvard Law Review, which has gained an enviable reputa- 
 tion as a sound legal journal, elects to its editorial board twelve 
 or more men from each class at the beginning of the second year 
 on the basis of ability shown in the first year's work. Only legal 
 ability and character gain a man standing among his fellows, and 
 where men from nearly every state and of every type are working 
 together with a common serious purpose, it is easy to make acquain- 
 tances and to form lasting friendships. Amid such surroundings 
 the life of the School could not be other than attractive for the man 
 who enjoys legal work. 
 
 THE DIVINITY SCHOOL 
 
 C. H. LYTTLE, GRDv., A.M., WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY, 1908, 
 B.D., MEADVILLE, 1910 
 
 Home address, 1512 East 107th Street, Cleveland, Ohio. 
 
 Outside the Yard, at the end of Divinity Avenue, is a quadrangle 
 bounded by the University Museum and Divinity Hall. The spot 
 is tranquil and picturesque with the contrast of ivy and old brick. 
 No inscription points out the unsecular character of the Hall, but 
 within the chapel, the windows of which look out upon a grove of 
 waving branches, there is a memorial tablet to Emerson and upon 
 it the sentence - " Acquaint men at first hand with Deity." Let 
 it serve to indicate both the uses and the venerable character of the 
 Hall and to introduce us to the precincts of the Divinity School. 
 
 The Divinity School, although founded by Unitarian Congre- 
 gationalists, is today non-sectarian in character, a fact which is 
 emphasized by the appointment of Baptist, Methodist, Trinitarian- 
 Congregationalist, and Episcopalian instructors. By reason of 
 its scholarly methods and purposes, the School has well acquired 
 the right to bestow the degree of Bachelor of Scientific Theology. 
 Such a policy renders it especially fitted to give attention to the 
 investigation of religions other than Christianity and Judaism, as 
 well as to social theory and applied Sociology. 
 
 The atmosphere is one of earnest study and research. The 
 School affords the student great freedom of the choice of electives.
 
 HARVARD OF TODAY 83 
 
 The Divinity School joins with the Faculty and students of Andover 
 Seminary in a daily evening prayer service, held alternately in their 
 two Chapels. These services are conducted by the Faculties and 
 by the older students. A sermon is given on Thursdays. 
 
 Both Schools have common rooms with pianos and magazines. 
 Here are held the meetings of their societies; the Divinity Club to 
 which all the students of either school belong and the programme 
 of which consists largely in lectures by eminent men, philanthro- 
 pists and clergymen, and conferences with them more informally; 
 the Channing Club, a monthly forum for open discussion of social 
 and economic reforms; the Society of Inquiry (Andover) the special 
 field of which is foreign missions. The students are further eligible 
 for membership in the various departmental societies of the Gradu- 
 ate School. 
 
 The spirit of the School is democratic and open minded. The 
 consciousness of the fact that in the religious progress of the cen- 
 tury the Divinity School has kept a foremost place, compels an 
 attitude of hospitality for every type of sincere radicalism. Theo- 
 logical differences are rarely referred to and are never obstacles to 
 pleasant fellowship. 
 
 SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 
 
 The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences consists of men work- 
 ing for the degrees of A.M. and Ph.D. The total membership in 
 1912-13 was 503, distributed principally among the departments of 
 Ancient Languages, Modern Languages, Philosophy, Mathematics, 
 Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and Education. These men come 
 from all parts of this country, and to some extent from foreign 
 countries; indeed, the newcomer at the School is usually struck by 
 the heterogeneity of the men in their studies and in their origins. 
 It is easy to see what chances for exchange of ideas lie in the bring- 
 ing together of so many kinds of talents, opinions, prejudices, and 
 temperaments. 
 
 The great advantage the School offers and one which can 
 hardly be matched in this country is the close relationship 
 between student and Professor. At Harvard the advanced student 
 in almost any department has the personal supervision, even com- 
 panionship, of men of the first rank in their subjects. Less impor- 
 tant, but hardly less, are the library facilities. I refer not only to 
 the great extent and value of the collections in Harvard and Boston
 
 84 HARVARD OF TODAY 
 
 libraries, but to the readiness of access allowed the advanced stu- 
 dent. At Harvard the stacks are thrown open to him; in Boston 
 the courtesies are hardly less extensive; and there are several 
 special libraries, devoted to books on many single or related subjects, 
 where he is always welcomed. 
 
 The University is drawing together the social life of the graduate 
 students, by devoting all of one dormitory, Conant Hall, on Oxford 
 Street, and half of College House to men in the graduate schools. 
 The plan has been highly successful, for Conant, which accommo- 
 dates about 100 men, is in great demand. It has a splendid, large 
 common room, used by the Hall as a lounge and reading room, and 
 by various scholastic clubs as a meeting place. This common room, 
 and indeed Conant Hall itself, constitutes the center of the social 
 life of the School. 
 
 A word about the relation of the Graduate School to the College 
 and its activities. The School, to be sure, is a separate entity. 
 At the same time, the members of the College and School attend 
 the same lecture halls, dine at the same dining halls, and thus come 
 in contact. The graduate student, like the college man, has the 
 privilege of supporting athletics by buying season tickets to the 
 games at a reduced rate. The Union is open to him, and, gener- 
 ally speaking, whatever privileges of lectures, gymnasium, tennis 
 courts, and " pop-nights " are given to the college man, are free to 
 him also. 
 
 SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 
 
 J. C. EMISON, 2G.B., A.B., DE PAUW UNIVERSITY, 1911 
 Home address, Vincennes, Indiana. 
 
 The Business School strictly enforces its requirements that all 
 candidates for its degree shall be college graduates, and, except in 
 special cases, allows only holders of college degrees to register for 
 full work. Such requirements make the School unique among 
 similar institutions of this country, most of which seek to combine 
 collegiate and professional training. The student body is, there- 
 fore, composed of college men from all parts of the country - 
 indeed, from many parts of the world who have completed their 
 undergraduate work and are engaging in a serious study of business 
 as a profession. 
 
 The School of Business Administration is primarily designed for 
 those aiming to fit themselves for the ultimate attainment of posts 
 of responsibility and leadership in the business ' world. It is a
 
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 school of extraordinarily high standards, which seeks to train liber- 
 ally educated men in the broader principles of modern business, 
 and above all to lead them to think rightly and accurately upon 
 business subjects. 
 
 The courses of instruction are grouped under seven heads 
 Accounting, Commercial Law, Commerical Organization, Indus- 
 trial Organization, Banking and Finance, Transportation, Insur- 
 ance. Each student is given ample opportunity to elect such work 
 as will particularly fit him for the field he plans to enter. Two 
 years' study is necessary to obtain the degree of Master in Business 
 Administration. 
 
 The School is happily rich in friends and supporters. Business 
 men from every line of industry take an active part in its affairs. 
 The system of instruction includes lectures and talks by such men. 
 Numerous business houses, factories, and shops are open to the 
 students for class and individual investigations. In one course 
 each student has an " adviser " who is an active business man and 
 who directs the student's work in some phase of his business. 
 
 The opportunity the School affords for interesting study is un- 
 limited. Indeed, the pleasures and benefits to be derived from 
 attending the Harvard School of Business Administration cannot 
 be overestimated. 
 
 SCHOOLS OF APPLIED SCIENCE 
 
 E. L. ROBINSON, 2 G.S., A.B., ST. LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY, 1911 
 Home address, 7 University Avenue, Canton, New York. 
 
 The Graduate Schools of Applied Science comprise the five 
 schools of Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Architecture and 
 Landscape Architecture, Forestry, and Applied Biology. In these 
 various fields advanced professional and technical work is open 
 only to holders of a bachelor's degree from some college or techni- 
 cal school of good standing. 
 
 THE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING 
 
 The School of Engineering offers programmes of study in Civil, 
 Mechanical, and Electrical Engineering. Its finely equipped lec- 
 ture rooms, drafting rooms, laboratories, and library are in Pierce 
 Hall. Work-shop courses or courses in manual training, which the 
 School requires as a prerequisite to study in certain lines of Engi- 
 neering, may be taken at the Cambridge Manual Training School.
 
 86 HARVARD OF TODAY 
 
 All instruction in surveying, including railroad and geodetic survey- 
 ing, is given in the summer at the Harvard Engineering Camp. 
 This tract of seven hundred acres, situated on Squam Lake, New 
 Hampshire, in the foothills of the White Mountains, is so varied 
 in topography as to afford practice ground for all kinds of surveying 
 problems. The Camp furnishes an excellent opportunity for young 
 men to advance themselves in preparation for more strictly techni- 
 cal work in Engineering, Mining, Landscape Architecture, and 
 Forestry. 
 
 THE SCHOOL OF MINING AND METALLURGY 
 
 The School of Mining and Metallurgy possesses lecture, reading, 
 exhibition, and storage rooms, the Laboratory of Metallurgical 
 Chemistry, the Ore-Dressing Laboratory, the Assay Laboratory, 
 the Metallurgical Laboratory, and the Laboratory of Metallography. 
 The students carry on practical work during the summer at the 
 Elizabeth mine in Orange County, Vermont. The class is divided 
 into four squads which perform the work of surveying, sinking, 
 drifting, and stoping. The students drill holes, blast, clean up, 
 timber, lay track, and perform all the operations of actual mining. 
 
 THE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE 
 
 The School of Architecture has one of the best equipped buildings 
 in the College Yard Robinson Hall. This contains many draw- 
 ing rooms, a Hall of Casts in which are full-sized casts of important 
 pieces of architecture, and a collection of original fragments, chiefly 
 marble, of Greek, Roman, and Italian Renaissance detail. In addi- 
 tion to these collections, those of the Fine Arts Department in the 
 Fogg Art Museum, of German work in the Germanic Museum, and 
 of Assyrian, Persian, and Roman work in the Semitic Museum are 
 available and freely open to students. 
 
 Landscape Architecture, though closely related to Architecture, 
 involves many independent problems. Direct instruction in land- 
 scape design is based on a knowledge of topographical surveying, 
 botany, geology, horticulture, and forestry. The equipment of the 
 University for instruction in these subjects is exceptional, for it 
 includes the Engineering Camp, the University Museum, the Bot- 
 anic Garden, the Bussey Institution, the Arnold Arboretum, and 
 the Harvard Forest at Petersham.
 
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 THE SCHOOL OF FORESTRY 
 
 The School of Forestry acquired, in 1908, two thousand acres of 
 forest land in Petersham, eighty-five miles west of Cambridge. 
 This forest, comprising the best body of timber to be found on an 
 equal area in Massachusetts, gives a unique opportunity for the 
 successful practice of forestry. The forest will be so organized as 
 to offer a valuable demonstration of practical and scientific manage- 
 ment. The students spend the winter term in class-work at Cam- 
 bridge, and the spring and fall terms in the forest in the study of 
 silviculture, forest botany, forest protection, lumbering, mill work, 
 and forest management. 
 
 THE SCHOOL OF APPLIED BIOLOGY 
 
 The School of Applied Biology, established by reorganizing the 
 Bussey Institution, is devoted to advanced instruction and research 
 in scientific problems which are of value to agriculture and horti- 
 culture. Its field has been concentrated to economic entomology, 
 animal genetics, experimental plant morphology, and animal path- 
 ology. The buildings and grounds of the Bussey Institution are 
 located at Forest Hills, within the city limits of Boston. Here, on 
 a great tract of 394 acres, is the Arnold Arboretum a splendid 
 museum of trees and shrubs, devoted to experiments in arbori- 
 culture, forestry, and dendrology. 
 
 The degrees granted to students who finish the various pro- 
 grammes of study in the Graduate Schools of Applied Science are 
 those recognized as professional degrees in their several fields: 
 Master in Civil Engineering, Master in Mechanical Engineering, 
 Master in Electrical Engineering, Mining Engineer, Metallurgical 
 Engineer, Master in Architecture, Master in Landscape Architec- 
 ture, Master in Forestry, and Master in Science. The degree of 
 Doctor of Science may also be conferred on the ground of very high 
 attainment in a special field.
 
 CHAPTER XI 
 
 NOT WEALTH BUT ABILITY 
 
 JAMES DUNCAN PHILLIPS, '97 
 
 Vice-President, New England Federation of Harvard Clubs; Chairman, Committee 
 on Relation with Preparatory Schools of the Associated Harvard Clubs. 
 
 THREE years ago the Committee of the Associated Harvard Clubs 
 on Secondary Schools, in groping about for some legitimate activity, 
 took up an investigation of how boys who did not come to Harvard 
 College were influenced in other directions. The questionnaire was 
 sent to the secretaries of all the Harvard clubs, asking, among other 
 things, what reasons were usually given by boys who went elsewhere 
 for not going to Harvard, and it was remarkable how prevalent the 
 time-worn idea that Harvard war a rich man's college was alleged 
 as the moving cause. With this as a starting point, the Committee 
 felt that it was their duty to dissipate this illusion if possible and at 
 any rate, to investigate the charge fully to see what it amounted to. 
 
 Last year the Committee sought in various ways for the data 
 which seemed to be necessary to refute the charge. As far as they 
 could find, the charge that Harvard was a rich man's college, which 
 is a very indefinite one, meant that in some way the rich boys at 
 Harvard secured all the social and athletic prizes, while the poor 
 boys received no attention. If this charge meant simply that rich 
 men send their sons to Harvard, it is unquestionably true, but in 
 the same way you could demonstrate that Harvard is a poor man's 
 college, because there is no doubt that a great many poor boys go 
 to Harvard; in fact, probably a much larger proportion of the 
 undergraduates, judged by the ordinary standards, are poor boys 
 than rich boys. The Committee found last year that a consider- 
 able portion of the poorer boys had standing in the University and 
 also that a considerable number of the men with standing in the 
 University were working their way, but the question which class 
 dominates the undergraduate life obviously required a much closer 
 investigation than the Committee were able to give it through their 
 own efforts. 
 
 During the year just passed, with the backing of the Associated 
 Harvard Clubs, this Committee employed a young man who, while 
 
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 HARVARD OF TODAY 89 
 
 working his own way through the University, had also received all 
 of the social and athletic honors which any boy could legitimately 
 ask for. This young man acted as secretary for the Committee, 
 and, under its guidance, prepared with great skill and thoroughness 
 the data which the Committee were this year able to present and 
 which it has seemed to many graduates settled the charge so often 
 made against Harvard. All the statistics given were carefully 
 checked and the secretary of the Committee personally knew a 
 great many of the men who sent in their reports and was able to 
 confirm their statements, thus dispensing with the charge that has 
 already been raised that these statistics were not bona fide and 
 that the boys who answered the questions did not do so in good 
 faith but rather with an idea of padding the returns. It is the 
 definite opinion of those who have examined the returns that they 
 underestimate rather than overestimate the conditions which exist 
 at Harvard today. 
 
 There are no statistics anywhere as to the actual number of men 
 who work their way in whole or in part through college, and we 
 believe that in the nature of things these figures cannot be obtained. 
 Not all the men addressed would be willing to reply to any question- 
 naire, and even if they did reply, it is doubtful whether in many 
 cases earnings of considerable size would not be overlooked. 
 
 The present discussion, however, does not really involve the ques- 
 tion how many partially self-supporting boys there are in the Uni- 
 versity but whether this class of boys is as fully represented among 
 the leaders of undergraduate life as it should be. In making this 
 investigation a group of 292 men in the classes of 1910, 1911, 1912, 
 and 1913 was selected, representing the most prominent men in 
 each class. This selection included (1) the class officers; (2) the 
 most prominent scholars, namely, those who were taken into Phi 
 Beta Kappa in Junior year; (3) the men who made a major Varsity 
 team in their Sophomore year; (4) the principal officers of the col- 
 lege magazines; (5) the Senior members of the student council; 
 (6) the Senior members of the governing board of the Union; (7) 
 debaters against Yale and Princeton; and (8) certain leading mem- 
 bers of the musical clubs. A blank was sent to each man asking 
 for information. 
 
 Answers were received from 192 men, who were 65 per cent of 
 the total, thoroughly representative of the whole group. A classi- 
 fication of the returns indicates that among these 192 college leaders 
 there were 39 high scholars, 76 athletes, 92 men connected with
 
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 the magazines, 30 men connected with the musical organizations, 
 122 class officers, and 6 debaters. Under class officers are included 
 the members of the student council and of the Union board. 136 
 belonged to two or more clubs. Of course, many men were leaders 
 in two or more forms of activity, and there are, therefore, a large 
 number of repetitions in the above count, but it will be noticed 
 that every form of college activity is well represented. 
 
 These men came from every part of the country, and their places 
 of residence were as follows : 
 
 California 5 Michigan 2 
 
 Canada 2 Minnesota 3 
 
 Colorado 3 Missouri 7 
 
 Connecticut 3 Mississippi 1 
 
 District of Columbia 2 New Hampshire 1 
 
 Hawaii 2 New York " 28 
 
 Illinois 4 North Dakota 1 
 
 Indiana 1 Ohio 4 
 
 Iowa 3 Oregon 1 
 
 Kansas 1 Pennsylvania 9 
 
 Kentucky 1 Rhode Island 3 
 
 New Jersey 1 Tennessee 1 
 
 Maryland 3 Texas 1 
 
 Massachusetts 103 Vermont 1 
 
 Mexico 1 Virginia 1 
 
 By comparing this table of residence with that of the entire 
 undergraduate body of the University, we find that the percentage 
 of Massachusetts men in this group of prominent men is smaller 
 than in the whole College, while the percentage of men from New 
 York, Pennsylvania, Missouri, and California (which are the four 
 States having the next largest representation in the prominent 
 group) is larger among the prominent men than it is in the Uni- 
 versity at large. In other words, the men from a distance figure 
 more largely than those from the immediate vicinity, and the man 
 from Missouri, to quote a concrete instance, seems to stand three 
 times as good a chance of being prominent as the man from Massa- 
 chusetts, for 3 1 per cent of the prominent men are from Missouri, 
 while only 1| per cent of the whole undergraduate body is from 
 Missouri. This would seem to explode the theory that a man must 
 come from Massachusetts in order to attain prominence at Harvard. 
 
 In the matter of expenditure some very interesting facts have 
 come to light. Among the 192 men, 2 average an expenditure of 
 over $2000 a year. The minimum expenditure appears to be about 
 $450 per annum for men who do riot live at home. A few men who
 
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 91 
 
 did live at home spent only a little over $200 per annum. The 
 average expenditure for the entire group was $1013 a year; the 
 Freshmen averaging $915, the Sophomores $1003, the Juniors 
 $1042, and the Seniors $1101. 
 
 This is probably much above the general average of the whole 
 University, for the goup under consideration contains the most 
 
 SANCTUM OF THE HARVARD ADVOCATE IN THE UNION 
 
 active and aggressive of the undergraduates, and while many of 
 them had to earn their money, they often earned large sums and 
 they did not hesitate to spend as much as some of the wealthiest 
 boys in their classes. 
 
 Out of the 192, 113 (over 59 per cent) earned some part of their 
 expenses, 45 received scholarships w r ith financial stipends, 22 re- 
 ceived honorary scholarships, and 68 who did not receive scholar- 
 ships earned considerable sums of money outside. The 113 men 
 w r ho earned money made a total of $102,067 during their four years, 
 of which $23,535 came from scholarships and $78,532 from outside 
 sources, an average of $208 apiece for scholarships, and $695 from 
 outside sources, for the whole group of 113 money-earners. One
 
 92 HARVARD OF TODAY 
 
 student earned $3350 in his four years, finishing his college course 
 $900 richer than he began, and 5 other men earned more than they 
 spent. Twenty-seven men earned exclusive of scholarships over 
 $1000 and 8 of these earned more than $2000. The average earnings 
 amount to over $900 per man. It is surprising to discover that 
 some of the men who spent very considerable sums (even exceeding 
 $1500 a year) earned a large part of it, and that nearly 60 per cent 
 of all these leading men earned at least a part of their way through 
 college. While there are no actual figures it is a reasonable assump- 
 tion that not more than 60 per cent of the entire undergraduate 
 body is self-supporting even in part and that therefore the boys 
 who are working their way are fairly represented in the group of 
 leaders of college life. 
 
 Just in passing it may be noted that among these 192 men, 26 
 graduated cum laude, 10 magna cum laude and 3 summa cum laude. 
 Eighty -four of them interested themselves in some form of religious 
 or social service in other words they did without remuneration 
 something for the betterment of the community. 
 
 It is interesting to trace the careers of one or two men whose 
 records show excellent results. The first is from an inconspicuous 
 place in Pennsylvania. He received $100 from the Price Green- 
 leaf aid his first year, and during his four years earned $3350, while 
 he spent $2450, thus actually saving $900 by going to college. He 
 belonged to the track team, edited one of the college papers, was a 
 class officer and a member of the student council, as well as a mem- 
 ber of the Institute, D. K. E., and the Hasty Pudding. Another 
 man from Kansas got $200 of Price Greenleaf aid to start on and 
 then proceeded to earn $2425, which exceeded his expenses by $175. 
 He was a varsity track team man, president of the student council, 
 and a marshal of his class, as well as a member of the Institute, the 
 D. K. E., Signet, Hasty Pudding, and of the governing board of 
 the Union. 
 
 Aside from these points of special interest, however, the investi- 
 gation as a whole unquestionably demonstrates certain facts which 
 may be briefly summarized as follows: 
 
 (1) That the leaders in undergraduate life at Harvard are drawn 
 from all parts of the country in very nearly the same ratio as the 
 whole student body, and that the attainment of such leadership 
 does not depend in any degree upon the locality from which the 
 student hails.
 
 HARVARD OF TODAY 93 
 
 (2) That the "rich man's college" myth, the theory that wealthy 
 boys dominate the life of Harvard, is effectively dissipated, since 
 about 60 per cent of these college leaders, and among them some of 
 the most successful and prominent, earned at least part of their 
 expenses, making an average of $900 per man, while six of them 
 actually earned more than they spent. 
 
 (3) That the lavish spenders who do attain undergraduate promi- 
 nence are relatively very few, and that the amount a man is able to 
 spend has almost no relation to his chances of becoming a leader in 
 undergraduate life, but that such a result depends almost entirely 
 upon his abilities and his character. 
 
 (4) That undergraduate leadership at Harvard is in the hands of 
 youths who are hard-working, high-minded, natural leaders who 
 give large promise of honorable and serviceable living in the Ameri- 
 can Commonwealth.
 
 CHAPTER XII 
 FINANCIAL AIDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS 
 
 INTENDED PRIMARILY FOR STUDENTS FROM A DESIGNATED TOWN OR 
 
 STATE 
 
 Financial aid to an amount somewhat in excess of $75,000 is available each year for meri- 
 torious students in Harvard College. 
 STATE 
 
 ALABAMA. Northern Alabama. Two hundred and fifty dollars. Any 
 undergraduate, of good character and scholarship, from Northern 
 Alabama, has the preference, over other applicants for this 
 scholarship. 
 
 ARIZONA. Three hundred dollars. 
 
 ARKANSAS. Three hundred dollars. 
 
 CALIFORNIA. Five hundred dollars. Awarded to graduate of the Uni- 
 versity of California or of the Leland Stanford Jr. University. 
 
 COLORADO. Rocky Mountain Harvard Club. Awarded to a promising 
 graduate of a Colorado college or school pursuing his studies at 
 Harvard. 
 
 CONNECTICUT. The fund is to accumulate for the present, and the scholar- 
 ship, therefore, is not now available. 
 
 DELAWARE. Scholarship of the Associated Harvard Clubs, three hundred 
 dollars. 
 
 The Scholarship of the Harvard Club of Delaware, three 
 hundred dollars. 
 
 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. The Scholarship of the Harvard Club of Wash- 
 ington, D. C., two hundred and fifty dollars. Awarded to a 
 student from a secondary school of ^Yashington. 
 
 FLORIDA. Scholarship of the Associated Harvard Clubs, three hundred 
 
 dollars. 
 The James A. Rumrill Scholarships, two, income of two hundred 
 
 and twenty -five dollars. 
 
 The James A. Rumrill Graduate Scholarship, income of two hun- 
 dred and twenty -five dollars. 
 
 GEORGIA. The James A. Rumrill Scholarships. See FLORIDA. 
 
 University of Georgia. The George Foster Peabody Scholarship, 
 two hundred and fifty dollars. Awarded in the Graduate School 
 of Harvard University. 
 
 HAWAII. The Scholarship of the Harvard Club of Hawaii, income two 
 hundred dollars. Awarded to a deserving student in any de- 
 partment of Harvard University.
 
 HARVARD OF TODAY 95 
 
 ILLINOIS. The Scholarships of the Harvard Club of Chicago. Three. 
 Income of three hundred dollars each. Two of these scholar- 
 ships awarded to graduates of Illinois high schools, and one to 
 be awarded to a graduate of an Illinois University or College 
 who wishes to pursue graduate studies at Harvard University. 
 The Dunlap Smith Scholarship, income of two hundred dollars. 
 
 INDIANA. The Scholarship of the Indiana Harvard Club, income of two 
 hundred dollars, awarded to a properly qualified graduate of 
 a high school in this state during his first year of residence in 
 Harvard College. 
 
 IOWA. Burlington; Towns on C. B. and Q. R.R., Iowa. The Charles 
 Elliott Perkins Scholarships; three undergraduate scholarships 
 and one graduate scholarship with an income of three hundred 
 dollars each. 
 
 KANSAS. The Scholarship of the Harvard Club of Kansas City, Mo., 
 income, one hundred and fifty dollars, awarded to a member 
 of the freshman class of Harvard College, coming from the State 
 of Missouri or Kansas. 
 
 KENTUCKY. The James A. Rumrill Scholarships. See FLORIDA. 
 
 LOUISIANA. The Scholarship of the Harvard Club of Louisiana, income 
 of about two hundred and fifty dollars. Awarded to a graduate 
 of Tulane University who wishes to pursue advanced non-pro- 
 fessional studies at Harvard University. 
 
 MAINE. The Scholarship of the Harvard Club in Maine, income of one 
 hundred and fifty dollars, intended primarily for a freshman 
 who comes from Maine, and has been fitted for Harvard by a 
 Maine preparatory school. 
 
 Thomaston, or Knox County, or Maine. The Henry B. Humphrey 
 Scholarship. Income of five hundred dollars. This scholarship 
 may be given also to a Special Student in Harvard College. 
 
 MARYLAND. The W. Graham Bowdoin, Jr., Scholarship. Income two 
 hundred and fifty dollars. Awarded to a deserving student 
 from the State of Maryland. 
 
 The Scholarship of the Harvard Club of Maryland income, two hun- 
 dred and fifty dollars, awarded annually for the next three 
 years to a graduate of a high or preparatory school in the State 
 of Maryland, during his first year at Harvard College. 
 
 MASSACHUSETTS. 
 
 Amesbury. The Scholarship of the Harvard Club of Newburyport. 
 Boston. The Boston Newsboys' Scholarship, income of one hundred 
 and fifty dollars. Awarded to one of the newsboys, eligible to 
 compete, who passes Harvard admission examinations with the 
 highest percentage.
 
 96 HARVARD OF TODAY 
 
 MASSACHUSETTS Boston (continued) 
 
 The Scholarship of the Harvard Club of Boston, five scholarships 
 of two hundred dollars each. Awarded annually to properly 
 qualified graduates of public High and Latin schools (including 
 Roxbury Latin School). 
 
 The Charles Sumner Scholarship, of two hundred dollars, open on 
 the same terms as the above scholarships. 
 
 East Boston. The Warren H. Cudworth Scholarships, income three 
 hundred dollars each for two students. Awarded to poor and 
 meritorious students in Harvard College. 
 
 Cambridge. The Daniel A. Buckley Scholarships, fifty, with income 
 of one hundred and fifty dollars each. 
 
 Concord. The Ebenezer Rockwell Hoar Scholarship, income of five 
 
 hundred dollars. 
 Munroe Fund, for meritorious students. 
 
 Dorchester. The Stoughton Scholarship, income one hundred and 
 fifty dollars. 
 
 Fall River. The Fall River Scholarship, income one hundred dollars, 
 for some meritorious, needy, undergraduate student. 
 
 Fitchburg. The Scholarship of the Harvard Club of Fitchburg. 
 Income of one hundred and fifty-eight dollars and fifty cents. 
 Awarded to some deserving member of each Freshman Class who 
 may enter Harvard College during the next four years from the 
 high schools of Fitchburg, Leominster, or Gardner. 
 
 Gardner. The Scholarship of the Harvard Club of Fitchburg. 
 
 Hampden County. The Scholarship of the Connecticut Valley Har- 
 vard Club, income of two hundred dollars. Awarded to a student 
 from Hampden County, Mass., in his first year at Harvard. 
 
 Hingham. The Scholarship of the Hingham Harvard Club, income 
 one hundred dollars. 
 
 Kingston. The Sever Scholarship, income of one hundred and fifty 
 dollars, awarded to some meritorious undergraduate without 
 exclusive reference to academic rank. 
 
 Lawrence. The Scholarship of the Harvard Club of Lawrence, in- 
 come of two hundred dollars, open to graduates of Lawrence 
 High School who are admitted to the Freshman Class of Harvard 
 College. 
 
 Leominster. The Scholarship of the Harvard Club of Fitchburg. 
 
 Lincoln. The Levina Hoar Scholarship, income of three hundred 
 dollars. Awarded to a student in the Graduate School of Arts 
 and Sciences. 
 
 Lowell. The Scholarships of the Harvard Club of Lowell, two, in- 
 come one hundred and fifty dollars each. 
 The Warren H. Cudworth Scholarships. See East Boston.
 
 HARVARD OF TODAY 97 
 
 MASSACHUSETTS (continued) 
 
 Lynn. The Scholarship of the Harvard Club of Lynn, one hundred 
 dollars, awarded annually to a student entering Harvard from 
 Lynn, Swampscott, Saugus, or Nahant. 
 
 Milton. The Swift Scholarship. Income two hundred dollars. 
 
 Awarded to a scholar from the Town of Milton. 
 The Stoughton Scholarship. See Dorchester. 
 
 Natick. The Edwin Erwin Coolidge Scholarships, two, income of 
 two hundred dollars each, and two with an income of one hun- 
 dred and fifty dollars each. 
 
 New Bedford. The Scholarship of the New Bedford Harvard Club. 
 Income of two hundred and fifty dollars, awarded to a student 
 from New Bedford entering the Freshman Class. 
 
 Newburyport. The Scholarship of the Harvard Club of Newburyport. 
 Income of one hundred and fifty dollars, open to graduates of 
 the high schools in Newburyport and Amesbury who are ad- 
 mitted to the Freshman Class. 
 
 Newton. The Scholarship of the Harvard Men of Newton. Income, 
 one hundred and fifty dollars. Offered to an undergraduate of 
 Harvard College whose home is or has been in Newton. 
 
 Plymouth. The Sever Scholarship. See Kingston. 
 
 Salem. The Browne Scholarship, income of one hundred and seventy- 
 five dollars. 
 
 Mary Lindall Fund. Bequeathed one hundred pounds. Interest 
 thereof to be applied to scholars of good character, who are in 
 poor circumstances. 
 
 Worcester. The Scholarship of the Harvard Club of Worcester, in- 
 come of two hundred dollars, awarded to a worthy student from 
 Worcester. 
 
 The Elnathan Pratt Scholarship. Income of two hundred dollars. 
 Devoted annually to one needy student, preference given to 
 one from Worcester. 
 
 MICHIGAN. The Scholarship of the Harvard Club in Michigan. Income 
 of two hundred and fifty dollars, awarded to a student from 
 Michigan, in his freshman year. 
 
 MINNESOTA. The Scholarship of the Harvard Club of Minnesota. In- 
 come of two hundred and fifty dollars, for a graduate of a high 
 school in the State, who enters the Freshman Class. 
 MISSOURI. The Scholarship of the Harvard Club of St. Louis. Income 
 
 of three hundred dollars. 
 
 NEBRASKA. The Scholarship of the Harvard Club of Nebraska. Income 
 of one hundred and fifty dollars, open to a graduate of a 
 Nebraska high school, or college, or university.
 
 98 HARVARD OF TODAY 
 
 NEVADA. The Scholarship of the Associated Harvard Clubs. Income of 
 
 three hundred dollars. 
 NEW HAMPSHIRE. Phillips Exeter Academy. The Abbot Scholarship. 
 
 Income of one hundred and seventy -five dollars. 
 The Augustus Woodbury Scholarship, not yet available. 
 NEW JERSEY. The Prize Scholarship of the Harvard Club of New Jersey. 
 Annual prize of two hundred and fifty dollars to the student 
 from New Jersey entering the Freshman Class in Harvard College. 
 Prize open only to students of good character. 
 
 NEW YORK. The Scholarship of the Harvard Club of Eastern New York. 
 Income of one hundred and fifty dollars, given to a graduate of a 
 high school in Eastern New York. 
 Erie County. The Scholarship of the Harvard Club of Buffalo. 
 
 Income of two hundred dollars. 
 
 Long Island. The Scholarship of the Harvard Club of Long Island. 
 Income of two hundred dollars, awarded to graduates of prepara- 
 tory or high schools on Long Island, who enter the Freshman 
 Class. 
 
 Rochester. The Scholarship of the Harvard Club of Rochester, income 
 of two hundred dollars, awarded annually to some student in 
 Rochester. 
 
 Syracuse. The Scholarship of the Harvard Club of Syracuse. In- 
 come of two hundred dollars, given annually to some deserving 
 Syracuse boy. 
 NORTH CAROLINA. The Scholarship of the Associated Harvard Clubs. 
 
 Income of three hundred dollars. 
 The James A. Rumrill Scholarships. See FLORIDA. 
 NORTH DAKOTA. The Scholarship of the Associated Harvard Clubs. 
 
 Income of three hundred dollars. 
 OHIO. Central Ohio. The Harvard Club of Central Ohio. Income of one 
 
 hundred and fifty dollars. 
 Cincinnati or Ohio. The Julius Dexter Scholarships, income of two 
 
 hundred and twenty-five dollars. 
 
 Cleveland or Ohio. The Scholarship of the Harvard Club of Cleve- 
 land. Income of four hundred dollars. 
 
 Hamilton County. The Scholarship of the Harvard Club of Cincin- 
 nati. Income of two hundred and fifty dollars, awarded annually 
 to a student entering Harvard College from Hamilton County, 
 Ohio. 
 
 PENNSYLVANIA. Philadelphia. The Philadelphia Scholarships, three. 
 Income of three hundred and fifty dollars each, awarded to de- 
 serving Freshmen.
 
 HARVARD OF TODAY 99 
 
 PENNSYLVANIA (continued) 
 
 Western Pennsylvania. The Scholarships of the Harvard Club of 
 Western Pennsylvania, three. Income of three hundred dollars 
 each, awarded to deserving students from preparatory and high 
 schools of Western Pennsylvania, who are undergraduates at 
 Harvard College. 
 
 RHODE ISLAND. The Scholarship of the Harvard Club of Rhode Island. 
 Income of one hundred and fifty dollars, awarded to a graduate 
 of a Rhode Island public school. 
 
 Petaquamscot. The Sewall Scholarships. Two, with income of two 
 hundred and fifty dollars each. 
 
 SOUTH CAROLINA. Scholarship of the Associated Harvard Clubs. Income 
 
 of three hundred dollars. 
 The James A. Rumrill Scholarships. See FLORIDA. 
 
 SOUTH DAKOTA. Scholarship of the Associated Harvard Clubs. Income 
 three hundred dollars. 
 
 TENNESSEE. The James A. Rumrill Scholarships. See FLORIDA. 
 
 VERMONT. The Scholarship of the Harvard Club of Vermont. Income 
 of one hundred and fifty dollars, awarded to a deserving student 
 from Vermont who registers as an undergraduate in Harvard Col- 
 lege. 
 
 VIRGINIA. The Scholarship of the Harvard Club of Virginia. Income 
 
 one hundred and fifty dollars. 
 The James A. Rumrill Scholarships. See FLORIDA. 
 
 WASHINGTON. Seattle. The Scholarship of the Harvard Club of Seattle. 
 Income of three hundred dollars. Given to a student from Seattle. 
 Spokane. The Scholarship of the Harvard Club of Spokane. Income 
 two hundred and fifty dollars. 
 
 WEST VIRGINIA. Scholarship of the Harvard Men in West Virginia. 
 Income three hundred dollars, awarded in 1913-14 to a properly 
 qualified applicant for admission to Harvard College from West 
 Virginia. 
 
 WISCONSIN. Milwaukee. The Scholarship of the Harvard Club of Mil- 
 waukee. Income, two hundred dollars, awarded to a member of 
 the Freshman Class of Harvard College. 
 
 WYOMING. Scholarship of the Associated Harvard Clubs. Income three 
 hundred dollars. 
 
 PRICE GREENLEAF AID 
 
 In addition to the scholarships for students from a designated 
 city or state, about sixteen thousand dollars from the Price 
 Greenleaf Fund is available for assignment to candidates for 
 the degree of Bachelor of Arts in their first year of residence.
 
 CHAPTER XIII 
 PUBLICATIONS CONCERNING HARVARD 
 
 NOVELS AND OTHER LITERATURE CONCERNING THE LIFE AT HARVARD 
 
 A History of Harvard. A. S. Pier, '95, 1913. 
 
 A History of Harvard University from Its Foundation in the Year 1636, 
 
 to the Period of the American Revolution. B. Peirce. Cambridge, 
 
 1833. 
 A Sketch of the History of Harvard College and of Its Present State. 
 
 S. A. Eliot. Boston, C. C. Little, 1878. 
 Brown of Harvard. R. J. Young and G. P. Coleman. (Illustrated.) 
 
 New York and London, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1907. 
 Forbes of Harvard. Elbert Hubbard. Boston, Arena Publishing Co., 
 
 1894. 
 Hammersmith, His Harvard Days. M. S. Severance. Boston, Houghton 
 
 Osgood Co., 1878. 
 Harvard Advocate (literary magazine). Published at The Harvard 
 
 Union, Cambridge, Mass. 
 Harvard Alumni Bulletin. Published weekly. 50 State Street, Boston, 
 
 Mass. 
 Harvard and Its Surroundings. M. King. (Illustrated.) Boston, 
 
 Rand Avery Co., 1886. 
 Harvard College by an Oxonian. G. Birkbeck Hill. New York, Mac- 
 
 millan and Co., 1894. 
 Harvard Crimson (daily newspaper). Published at The Harvard Union, 
 
 Cambridge, Mass. 
 
 Harvard Episodes. C. B. Flandrau. Boston, Copeland and Day, 1897. 
 Harvard Graduates' Magazine (published quarterly). Boston, 1892. 
 Harvard Illustrated Magazine (monthly journal of Harvard men and 
 
 affairs). Published at Little's Block, Cambridge, Mass. 
 Harvard Lampoon (comic paper). Published at Lampoon Building, 
 
 Cambridge, Mass. 
 Harvard Monthly (literary magazine). Published at The Harvard Union, 
 
 Cambridge, Mass. 
 
 Harvard of Today. J. Brett Langstaff. Cambridge, 1913. 
 Harvard Reminiscences. A. P. Peabody, D.D. Boston, Ticknor and 
 
 Co., 1888. 
 Harvard Stories, Sketches of the Undergraduates. W. K. Post. New 
 
 York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1893. 
 
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 HARVARD OF TODAY 101 
 
 Harvard University; Some account of its Makers, its Library and other 
 
 Buildings and its Club Life. New England Magazine, vol. 33. 
 Harvard University Gazette, Calendar of University events. 
 Harvard University Register, list of organizations and their members. 
 History of Harvard University, 2 volumes. J. Quincy, Cambridge, 1840. 
 Jarvis of Harvard. R. W. Kauffman. Boston, L. C. Page and Co., 1901. 
 Memories of Youth and Manhood. S. Willard, Cambridge, John Bartlett, 
 
 1855. 
 Official Guide to Harvard University, edited for the Harvard Memorial 
 
 Society, by William G. Brown, 1899. (With illustrations.) 
 Philosophy Four. Owen Wister. New York, The Macmillan Co., 1903. 
 Reminiscences of An Athlete Twenty Years on Track and Field. E. H. 
 
 Clark, 1911. Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin Co. 
 Rollo's Journey to Cambridge. F. J. Stimson. Boston, A. Williams and 
 
 Co., 1880. 
 Sherman Hale, The Harvard Half-Back. G. H. Rand. New York, 
 
 R. F. Fenno and Co., 1910. 
 Student Life Letters and Recollections for a Young Friend. S. Osgood. 
 
 New York, James Miller, 1861. 
 Student Life at Harvard. G. H. Tripp. Boston, A. Williams and Co., 
 
 1876. 
 The College Freshman's Don't Book. E. G. Fullerton. San Francisco, 
 
 Paul Elder and Co., 1910. 
 
 The Count at Harvard. R. S. Holland. Boston, L. C. Page and Co., 1906. 
 The Cult of the Purple Rose A Phase of Harvard Life. S. E. Johnson. 
 
 Boston, The Gorham Press, 1902. 
 The Diary of a Freshman. C. M. Flandrau. New York, Doubleday, 
 
 Page and Co., 1901. 
 The Harvard Book A series of historical, biographical, and descriptive 
 
 sketches. By various authors. Illustrated with views and portraits. 
 
 Collected and published by F. O. Vailess, H. A. Clark. Cambridge, 
 
 Welch, Bigelow and Co., 1875. 
 The Land of Joy. R. H. Barbour. New York, Doubleday, Page and Co., 
 
 1903. 
 
 Historical Sketch of Harvard University. W. R. Thayer, 1890. 
 History and Customs of Harvard University. W. R. Thayer. " Uni- 
 versities and their Sons," 1898, 1901. 
 
 Harvard Memorial Biographies. T. W. Higginson. 2 vols. 
 Sibley Harvard Graduates. 3 vols.
 
 CHAPTER XIV 
 
 LIST OF TERRITORIAL CLUBS AND ADDRESSES OF 
 THEIR SECRETARIES 
 
 Buffalo Ernest V. Moncrieff . Hollis 10, Cambridge 
 
 New Jersey S. S. Hall Fairfax 32, Cambridge 
 
 Kansas City . . . . E. L. Griffith .... Claverly 41, Cambridge 
 
 Pennsylvania . . . . S. P. Clark Holworthy 9, Cambridge 
 
 Colorado J. Davis Matthews 17, Cambridge 
 
 Maine W. W. Mansfield . . . Fairfax 45, Cambridge 
 
 New Hampshire . . . R. E. Home Perkins 9, Cambridge 
 
 Ohio W. H. Chatfield . . . Holworthy 6, Cambridge 
 
 Long Island . . . . A. S. Greider .... Drayton 2, Cambridge 
 
 Chicago G. Geraghty Hollis 10, Cambridge 
 
 Wisconsin H. A. Vogel Dunster 50, Cambridge 
 
 West Virginia . . . . R. L. Jones Dunster 70, Cambridge 
 
 Concord Julian W. Ballou . . . Westmorly 106, Cambridge 
 
 Cotton Belt States . . O. G. Saxon Stoughton 4, Cambridge 
 
 Oregon W. C. Barbour ... 96 Prescott Street, Cambridge 
 
 Worcester Academy . G. E. Hubbard .... Thayer 50, Cambridge 
 
 Washington State . . S. P. Silverman . . . Ware 34, Cambridge 
 
 Canadian J. W. Estey 20 Oxford Street, Cambridge 
 
 Indiana T. S. Rockwell .... 74 Hammond Street, Cambridge 
 
 Iowa E. M. Nourse .... 4 Story Street, Cambridge 
 
 Maiden Wm. M. Marston . . Cor. of Dunster and Winthrop Streets 
 
 Cambridge 
 
 Medford C. B. Long 72 Monroe Street, Roxbury 
 
 Texas Maurice Hursch . . . 1619 Nassau Street, Roxbury 
 
 Vermont Harold E. Staples . . Thayer 2, Cambridge 
 
 California W. A. Morrison ... 74 Fenwood Road, Boston 
 
 Fall River William Mason . . . 1727 Cambridge Street, Cambridge 
 
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