Word: accomplishments
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...modern doubt to which young Japan is inclined. There is at present only one Christian in the country to every 500 unbelievers. It seems better to educate natives for mission work than to bring in foreign missionaries, although of course the latter are very useful. But natives can accomplish more, and schools for their instruction are important items in the progress of the country. The lack of books is very great. One theological seminary of about sixty students has only about seventy books...
...candidates for the crew and Mott Haven team in particular have a great deal to do in the next three months. The crew men have already been at work for some time with well directed energy. They seem to understand pretty well the task which they have to accomplish. The Mott Haven men should also begin hard work at once. The places of some of the best men on last year's team, men who could always be depended upon to win points, must be filled. If the successes of last year are to be repeated new strength must...
...their position. The present material for their crew is exceedingly scant and unpromising. It is hoped that the foot ball material will furnish stronger men; but what is really needed is a more courageous and earnest spirit on the part of the whole class. They cannot expect to accomplish anything unless they awake into activity at once and for all from the half-hearted and lethagic interest which they are now showing in their crew...
...must be acknowledged that this belief would be rather Utopian. A set of musical Harvard men giving concerts and being lionized, however agreeably they might appear, could hardly be expected to have much influence in the weighty matter of education. Probably the principal thing that the musical clubs do accomplish, besides having a very pleasant time, is to bring Harvard memories and associations back to the distant graduates. Obviously, then, the sensible plan is for the clubs to go where they can reach the largest number of such graduates, and for this reason the West is a more suitable field...
...game was a thoroughly creditable one to Harvard's eleven. The men worked as hard as men ever worked and they accomplished all that men could be expected to accomplish under such discouraging conditions. No one has anything but praise for the men who made up the eleven. They played as well as they knew how to play. The whole trouble lay in the fact that they have not been taught how to play the game as it is played today. In both individual and team play they acted like men who had been left to work out their...