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...should know his subject so thoroughly as to be able to take part in a debate with Yale or Princeton with nothing committed to memory, with nothing rigidly predetermined, but with the whole question clear in his mind, every argument at his tongue's end, alert, ready to adapt his reasoning closely to that of his opponents. Indeed, to inculcate in him this ideal, and, more immediately, to direct his work so that time and energy may not be wasted,--are the functions of the coach. How well these two functions have been performed is shown by the continued successes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD DEBATING SYSTEM. | 10/24/1903 | See Source »

...sport. Nothing showed this better than the characteristic remark made by Garnier when he was told that he had been beaten on the tape in the hurdles: "Well, I'm sorry," he said, "but after all it was a good race." Our duty as university athletes is, to adapt the words of George Washington, to raise an athletic standard to which the wise and honest can repair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Lees Knowles on Athletics. | 1/9/1902 | See Source »

...following are the baseball songs which will be learned. The first is to the Hawaiian air "Ka-ua," which the Glee Club has been singing this winter. The cheers in the middle and at the end are shouted, not sung, and the bracketed lines adapt the lines to either Yale or Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania words will be sung tonight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BASEBALL SONGS. | 6/7/1901 | See Source »

This does not imply that the Pastorate as it now exists in all the bodies of Christian worship is unnecessary but merely that we have full right to adapt it to modern needs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Last Noble Lecture. | 12/11/1900 | See Source »

...laborer is largely due to the benefits he receives as a consumer from the cheapening of production. This great bettering of the condition of the laborer is only a natural outcome, for the whole structure of modern society makes more and more demands and the arts of living must adapt themselves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Wright's Lecture. | 11/13/1900 | See Source »

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