Word: accustoming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...coach, coxswain and rigger will leave at 9 o'clock this morning. Late this afternoon the University lightweight crew men will have a workout on the Thames, rowing over the course to accustom themselves to the conditions. Tomorrow morning they will have a final light workout before weighing...
...play Newton, which lost all its matches to the Lincoln's Inn team last Saturday, tomorrow. While the University should win, Newton will undoubtedly put up stronger resistance on its own courts, even though Cooke, who played No. 1 for Newton last year, is not competing this season. To accustom team A to the Newton courts, which are slightly broader and faster than those at the University, Coach Cowles took the players out on Monday and Wednesday to practice at the Newton courts...
...college President can stand by and allow his students to accustom themselves to excess, but what action can be take? At Princeton, Harvard and Yale, where drinking has perhaps declined, drunkenness has apparently increased. Yet what drinking is done is done under cover. At Harvard the authorities bestir themselves to action invariably expulsion when an undergraduate awakens in the morning to find his name in the papers. The test is avoidance of publicity...
...problem from the wrong end, to put the cart before the horse. Before undergraduates may be allowed all the privileges of the "desire" program, they must be educated up to education by desire. In this course of sprouts, gradual extension of freedom of cuts is a prime requisite to accustom the student to responsibility in doing his own work...
Last fall a new system was set down. It was very different in many respects from that taught by Dr. Howe the year before. Consequently it was hard to learn, and the fall season proved insufficient to accustom men, trained by different methods, to the Muller style. That was the principal reason for the poor showing of the University eight in the November races...