Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...editorials comment favorably on the H. A. A. ticket system adopted this year. It is also suggested that the price of admission to the football games be raised in order to shut out those who have made themselves objectionable at the games by "hooting and jeering cheaper than what can be heard on a summer afternoon at the South End Grounds...
...Horner and Zimmerman, tackles, and W. Gardiner and Hodge, ends, have filled the other vacancies. Back of the line. Graves, quarter, and Potter, Davidson and J. Gardiner, halves, have all done brilliant work, while the strong, all-round play of McCracken at fullback is too well known to need comment...
Without further comment we give the principal omissions. In the paragraph upon the civil service reform should stand the following: "The personal and political history of the candidates of the Republican party should cause them to be preferred on this issue to the candidates of the Democratic-Populist party; for of the two candidates nominated by the latter party, the one is a notorious spoilsman, and the other, being a civilian without military experience, accepted a colonelcy in time of war. That act speaks louder than orations...
...Another comment on the "new fashioned education" concerns what is expected of teachers. The value that is set on text-books induce teacher to give up a great part of their time to writing. Dean Briggs regards this value as overrated. The first duty of the teacher is to teach, writing should be a secondary affair, and not something on which to estimate an instructors worth, as the new education seems to do. By encouraging independent writing and research, it is possible that we have been unfitting the teachers, as teachers, for the student...
There has been much comment recently upon the value of the Harvard cheer. It appears that the trouble depends quite as much upon the spirit of the men who cheer as upon the character of the cheer itself...