Word: actions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...well as from participants in major sports, recognition should be equal in all cases, leave it in doubt as to whether the athletic letter is to be regarded more appropriately as a reward of excellence or as a sort of bribe held out to tempt the hesitating into action. Obviously if it serves in the first capacity it is effective in the second also, but obviously the first is the fundamental one for unless the letter is recognized as a valuable reward it will have no value as an incentive...
...five has been developing rapidly in its last few games, and will be strengthened in tonight's encounter by the return to the regular line-up of J. W. Baldwin '28, star forward, who has been out of the game for two weeks on account of illness. Baldwin saw action in the last few minutes of the M. I. T. game Wednesday evening and displayed his usual brilliant form...
...more familiar pages of the Mercury. Witness this description of the sad fate of the products of the present system: "Most Americans seem to have reached mental old age at the age of thirty. They reflect in stereotypes; they converse in slogans; their thinking is reiteration, and their action consequently--violence." The remedy, say these critics, lies in continuing the educational process throughout life, for "it is sheer folly to expect liberally educated children to grow into liberal adulthood in a society where anti-liberalism succeeds...
...Green '28, R. L. Hatch '28, and R. J. O'Connell '29, who have been kept out of play by injuries since the Dart-mouth game have recovered and are expected to go into action tonight...
...snap course", target of not a little opprobrium in educational magazines and dean's offices, has at last come into its own. Naming thus a new kind of course that will be part of the reorganized Columbia curriculum, an action vaguely suggestive of giving a dog a bad name, Dean Herbert E. Hawkes of the college announced at a dinner of Columbia alumni that in his judgement "snap courses serve an excellent purpose." Such a statement, it would seem, would have few farther flung associations than that with the cultivated tastes of the student vagabond of Harvard. But closer examination...