Word: column
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...announced in another column, this evening's Physical Training Conference has been arranged with the idea of promoting undergraduate discussion of the subject. There has of late been a growing feeling among certain graduates that some more general plan of encouraging physical development here might be more than justified by the practical good resulting from it. This sentiment was expressed in the report of the Committee on Physical Training, Athletic Sports, and Sanitary Condition of Buildings, to the Board of Overseers. To quote from the report:- "A large proportion of students not being sufficiently strong and active to play...
...correspondence on the subject of class crew management which has appeared in today's and yesterday's communication column is anything but a wise form of handling college affairs. The object with which the first letter was written was undoubtedly to bring forward what seemed to the writer a practical suggestion which ought to be considered. Wholly without intending it, he so phrased the letter, that several crew managers, including at least one graduate, felt that the communication implied dishonesty on their part. Of course such a motion is somewhat absurd, and those concerned probably realize it by this time...
...have gone thus into detail, not because the matter deserves so much attention in itself, but because it gives a fair example of a kind of letter-writing which can do no good, and may do more or less harm. Properly used the communication column is a reasonably useful institution, but at times it threatens to become an unmitigated nuisance. We have tried to open that column to all who want to use it, but we do not wish to place its space at the disposal of men who try to deal with persons in authority...
...suggested in another column, an artificial rink could be obtained on Holmes Field, the first of these difficulties would be entirely obviated, and the second rendered much less serious, as the rink could be flooded after snow storms and so provide good skating throughout a much longer period. The difficulty with such a proposal has been in former years that the baseball field could not be put in good condition after such an overflow. This would be a live objection today to a proposal to flood Soldiers Field, but as Holmes is not to be used for baseball this year...
...York city, will be the poet this year. While in college he was an editor of the Advocate and one of the founders of the Lampoon, and belonged to the O. K. and Hasty Pudding. He is now an editor of Life and writes the "This Busy World" column in Harper's Weekly...