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Volume 9 Mareh 24, 1911. Number 12 
The Harvard Spirit. 
Harvard has been judged un- 
justly from one side of its life to be 
snobbish and aristocratic. That it 
has deserved this criticism at times 
no one will deny but there is a spirit 
of democracy at Harvard, a_ true 
Harvard spirit which dominates the 
faculty and the mass of students 
which must not be _ overlooked. 
Harvard has her gold coast, her 
wealthy profligate sons but she also 
has the industrious sons of democra- 
tic Americans who are struggling to 
better themselves by a liberal edu- 
cation for the work of the world. 
The public often loses sight of this 
undercurrent, the solid basis of its 
ereatness, by the false reports of 
student pranks in unscrupulous 
newspapers. The Harvard spirit is 
expressed by the vote of the corpo- 
ration granting to Cambridge youths 
free tuition for the first year, re- 
duction of tuition in the Summer 
Schools to Cambridge teachers, the 
opening of the athletic fields as 
playgrounds for Cambridge children 
and finally gratuitous expert advice 
by the faculty to the municipality. 
This is the true Harvard Spirit. Her 
motto has always been in spirit, edu- 
cation for services. 
The provision of only one year’s 
free tuition has been open to criti- 
cism in some directions as unliberal. 
If for one year why not for four? 
The answer is simple: Every college 
eraduate who has been forced to 
work his own way through college 
knows that the first year’s tuition is 
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the great barrier to an education 
and if that be assured, there is 
usually a way out the remaining 
years of the course. At Harvard, a 
Cambridge lad will be given an op- 
portunity to make good and if he 
is a bright boy he will be able to 
obtain in an open struggle for uni- 
versity honors a scholarship for the 
other years of the course: He has a 
reasonable opportunity to obtain a 
scholarship for those three remain- 
ing years or if he be studious and 
especially successful he may com- 
plete his course in three years, that 
is, two years after the first. The 
other concessions are in keeping 
with a true academic and democratic 
spirit. 
These privileges which have been 
granted to Cambridge . residents 
arouse public spirit to the need of 
adequate opportunities for the boys 
and girls of Massachusetts to begin 
and continue a collegiate training. 
The new era has opened to the boys 
of Cambridge but what about the 
boys of Boston and the rest of 
Massachusetts? We do not need 
more universities in Massachusetts, 
but there can be a readjustment of 
such advantages so that the indus- 
trious sons of honorable but not 
wealthy parents may have an oppor- 
tunity to gain a collegiate education . 
on an equal footing with the boy in 
Michigan, who can go to the State 
University from the High School be- 
cause that institution is a part of 
the Public School system and_ its 
doors are open to him, with no tuition 
charge. To establish a_ state uni- 
versity in Massachusetts would be 
a folly, but there could be an adap- 
tation of the universities now opera- 
tive whereby the same results might 
be obtained at the minimum of ex- 
pense. Harvard progresses and in 
the right direction and in the right 
spirit. Three cheers for Harvard! 
Mr. Gardner and Reciprocity. 
The extra session of Congress will 
convene on April 4, at the eall of 
President Taft to consider the tariff 
agreement, commonly ealled Reci- 
procity, with Canada. Partisan fili- 
bustering prevented a vote in the 
regular session. Mr. Taft’s threat 
materialized and congress realized 
that there was a man with a. will in 
the White House. With the excep- 
tion of Mr. Gardner, the representa- 
tives from Massachusetts are re- 
ported as alligned with the Presi- 
dent and the people for the bill. 
‘been made 
Mr. Gardner is doubtlessly in- 
fluenced by his interest in Gloucester 
and her great industry. He has 
fought well for them but it still re- 
mains true that not all the residents 
of Gloucester are agreed that the 
treaty will ruin the city. Some even 
claim that it will be a benefit in the 
long run. However, that may be, it 
is true that not all of Mr. Gardner’s 
constituents live in Gloucester and 
they want him to vote with his 
party and the President for reci- 
procity. 
Cardinal Gibbons on Passion Play. — 
The Passion Play as given every 
ten years at Oberammagau is a re- 
ligious observance by pious people 
in commemoration of a great event 
in their community life. The intro- 
duction of commercial practices has 
already marred the celebration it- 
self in many ways. Every religious 
spirit says, amen to Cardinal Gib- 
bon’s opinion against its introduc-— 
tion into America as a ‘‘traveling 
show’’ conducted for mercenary 
ends. To transplant such a beauti- 
ful service of religion as a theatrical — 
display would border on sacrilege. 
It would be irreverent at least. The — | 
production of the play will be an 
affront to the religious sentiment of 
the American people. 
Martin Lomasney’s Defeat. 
That the citizens of Massachu- 
setts are alert to the encroachments 
which are attempted on the Sabbath. 
observance in its truest sense has 
evident this week not — 
only in public speech but in publie 
action. The Mayor of Beverly 
voiced the sentiment of many citi- 
zens of the North Shore when he 
said at the Citizens’ rally in Beverly, 
‘“‘the cities’ greatest need is more 
reverence and respect for the Sab- 
bath Day and what it stands for. 
The bills before the legislature look- 
ing to the breaking down of the 
Sabbath laws should be defeated.’’ 
On Monday, following the citizens’ 
rally, Martin Lomansney’s bill look- 
ing toward more liberal Sunday~ 
Baseball privileges was defeated. It 
was the first step toward a wide 
open Sunday. There was a danger 
that it would pass, in the minds of 
some of the legislators. An amend- 
ment was made to the original bill 
designed to prohibit professional 
baseball games. This was voted for 
by many who at the vote on the bill 
itself were recorded in the negative. 
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