Word: complexes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...society has become more and more complex, new and undreamt of opportunities for life work have opened up to college students. Some of these are already being professionalized, particularly those of a business character. Our schools of commerce and finance are preparing men for railroading, insurance and banking, and other lines of mercantile and business activities. Moreover, commercial and manufacturing concerns are reaching out in every direction for able college students of trained judgment and clear vision who, on learning the technique of the particular occupations, may be counted upon for leadership and direction. There is also the official public...
Increasingly American business life is pervades by the professional spirit. It has grown in response to pressure from within and to a quickened social sense from without. It was large-scale business, complex and with many public contacts, that has first felt these forces, and therefore has sought systematically to enlist broadly trained men. The smaller concerns are now falling into line. Business leaders began looking for young men who could use their minds, who could analyze problems and take a fresh point of view. They found that college graduates were likely to have the qualities they sought, activity...
...plan of Sunday marches is for them to progress in requirement of technical knowledge. After stressing at first march discipline,-such as cadence, and prevention of straggling, the Regiment plans to devote the later hikes to the more complex points. On the second Sunday an advance and rear guard will be formed; and later reconnoitering parties will deliver attacks and counter-attacks, the placement of troops being governed by the individual situation. To be qualified to take part in the interesting and complicated maneuvers, men will have to master the fundamental principles of march discipline, and for this reason attendance...
Because football is dominant for one day, however is no evidence that it is the single constituent of the college soul. There are hundreds of other days when the pursuit of knowledge is engrossing the minds of all. The soul of a college is a complex thing embodying innumerable diverse elements. The class-room, the athletic field, lectures, concerts, fellowship, all contribute their quota. The soul can no more be judged from its manifestations of a single day than can a defendant in a law suit from the adverse testimony alone. Tomorrow Harvard's soul will be football...
...intervals to permit the coaches to correct faults. The same difficulty was present which was shown in Saturday's game with Virginia; the team moved through simple plays with creditable speed and precision, but any attempt on the part of the quarterback to run off a play approaching the complex inevitably resulted in confusion. Only one score was made, a touchdown by Nelson which resulted after a long succession of simple plunges through the weak centre of the seconds' line...