Word: choses
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...interests of the warm supporters of foot-ball. Early in the winter the captains of both the University ball club and crew selected such men as they considered fit candidates for positions in their respective nine and boat; they had the opportunity of taking very nearly just whom they chose, and they have now included the best men from among these candidates in their organizations. How, then, can it be said that the foot-ball team will be made up to the detriment of either of the two interests? On the contrary, if the foot-ball men chose to complain...
...long as you chose to direct...
...measure which the captain believed to be wrong; he was therefore obliged to choose between rejecting the directions of the coach and retaining his own method, or accepting a measure which he believed would prove a mistake, and for the failure of which he would be responsible. He naturally chose the former course, and the result has been the withdrawal of the coach. It is evident from this that either captain or coach should be invested with full authority and responsibility by the Boat-Club. No person cares to undergo the trouble of coaching a crew unless he can have...
...stupidity. If more such measures were introduced, if a system of fines should be substituted in part for the system of censure-marks, we believe that the result would give general satisfaction. We could then be allowed privileges which we should have to pay for in case we chose to enjoy them, and thus both the independence of the undergraduate and the income of the College would be increased...
...self-created policy, in spite of all the cries for novelty and so-called improvement from that part of the community which favored the brand-new institutions of the day, grinding out A. B.'s by patent machinery. They might leave out Harvard College in the cold if they chose, and stigmatize her studies, her habits, her buildings, her societies, as old-fashioned. Sooner or later they would all come back to her, as having discovered and worked out for herself, by the experience of generations, what were the real demands of a liberal education, whose object was to make...