Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...prefer to eat without covering their ears and without dodging missiles, seems to have no place in their philosophy. One is led to wonder whether the change in admission requirements has resulted in the presence of a less desirable class of men. To throw bread, sugar, and potatoes; to break crockery without paying for it; to make it impossible for a lady to appear in their presence; are these to become typical characteristics of Harvard men? We must all agree with Dean Briggs that the main purpose of Harvard College is to turn out gentlemen. Do present conditions at Memorial...
...pass them satisfactorily, you can go on with whatever activities you may choose; if you fail, you have broken training in every branch of College interests which may attract you. You are then absolutely debarred from competition and have broken a mental training as disgracefully as you could break an athletic training...
Both crews this year are under the weight average of several years past. The Yale crew is the best one on the Thames in the present college generation, but it is inexperienced, and has the precedent of a long string of Harvard victories to break. Harvard on the other hand was a decidedly inferior crew in the early part of the season as was indicated by the two defeats it suffered as above stated. However the eight has made immense strides since coming to Red Top. There has been this year considerable newspaper comment stating that Yale had a better...
...Conn., June 11. Coach Wray devoted most of the time that he spent with the eights today in instructing and drilling them in both ends of the stroke--the catch and the finish. He showed the men how to break the arms into a sharp, driving finish and a quick starting of the recovery. At the catch, he called for a firmer application of power as the weight of the shoulder was put on. In the stretches in which the crews put this coaching into effect, the results were clearly noticeable; the boat ran faster during the recovery, and seemed...
...extension of the Leiter Cup baseball series into the examination period, an annual occurrence, has been the occasion of the usual homilies on "undergraduate irresponsibility." Complaints of appointments unkept, of carelessness and unreliability, break out at the slightest suggestion. The difficulty of securing trustworthy men for positions of even minor responsibility is becoming proverbial and, indeed, the question is one of the hardiest of the hardy perennials that grow in the editorial column. And that is not all. In the phrase "college-graduate irresponsibility" we have an addition to our categories. Again and again business men remark upon the shiftlessness...