Word: backwards
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Freshman dormitories are presenting a new problem to the Chapel committee Owing to their remote situation, the men do not seem to realize that morning Chapel is conducted for the University at large, of which they form an important part, and consequently the Freshman class has been decidedly backward in attendance. The service will last only 5 minutes and it is hoped that all Freshmen will take advantage of this opportunity to hear President Lowell, Dean Briggs and Dean Thayer...
...general instructions from Coach Donovan. Captain Barron explained the spirit of enthusiastic determination and harmony which is absolutely necessary to the success of the team, and warned the men against the overconfidence which resulted in the loss of the Yale meet last spring. He urged candidates not to be backward in consulting the coaches about any trouble whatsoever which they feel to be interfering with their work. Coach Donovan brought out the point that yesterday really marked the beginning of the season and prescribed strict observance of the customary rules of training...
...closer touch with Harvard. The project is not yet fully outlined but is evidently capable of great possiblities. The fundamental idea of bringing the clubs together is an excellent one, and the Federation should be a great influence in making the efficient clubs more efficient and in stimulating the backward ones to more serious efforts. The possibilities of the territorial clubs themselves are now practically all developed, and it only remains to insure the fulfillment of these possibilities by all the clubs...
...seen the Monthly during two years only sporadically and then with disappointment, the present number is more satisfying. At the end of its hard year of rehabilitation the magazine shows itself worthy of the ideals of the past. We no longer yearn to bear a mantle on our shoulders backward and cover...
Probably no college has been so backward as Harvard in thus making known the advantages that it offers young men. Partly through carelessness, partly through preoccupation with the rush of new developments at the University we have lost out hold on New England, and get far too small a number of the strong and able boys who still pour out of the ancient fountain of manhood. If the clubs respond to this call of the Federation, Harvard will be enabled to enter again into a more fitting share of mutual service in the home country...