Word: actions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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When a student passes from the sheltering portals of a preparatory school to the freer life of a university he is thrown for the first time on his own responsibility. At school his every action is prescribed and regulated by older men and he is carefully shielded from the temptations of the outer world. At college, however, he must choose for himself when to study and when to play, and he must work out his own problems of discipline and conduct...
...stopped at 5 o'clock by utter darkness, every man was sent in to take part. No scoring was made, for the University team could not make consistent progress through the seconds' line, this being the only safe method of attack on the slippery field. The lack of concerted action on the part of the linemen was very noticeable, but this can be excused largely by the conditions under which they were playing...
...board of athletic control, in a statement issued tonight declares that Princeton made no protest of any sort concerning the five men whom Yale has declared ineligible. The whole matter was brought up by Yale authorities entirely on their own initiative, who deserve the fullest credit possible for their action...
Providing favorable action is taken by the governors of the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur. Athletes of America, many changes will be made when the second indoor games for college athletes are staged at Madison Square Garden March 4. A special meeting will be held in Boston November 19, on the eve of the annual intercollegiate cross-country race, to take action on the proposed changes. The event last year was much in the nature of an experiment, and the actual competition showed where there might be improvement in the future. The main idea is still adhered to, that of making...
Several of the Harvard men who have been in the ambulance service have left it to take an active part in the struggle. Among these are O. D. Filley '06, now a lieutenant in the British air service, who was recently decorated for brilliant conduct in action; D. P. Starr '08 and W. G. Oakman, Jr., '08, who are said to be driving armored motors in the Dardanelles; E. C. Cowdin, 2d, '08, Norman Prince '08, and Frazier Curtis '98, in the French aviation service. R. T. W. Moss '95 entered the Ambulance service in January, 1915, but in March...