Word: crimson
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...time for discussion has passed. If intercollegiate contests during the winter months are to be saved, and the major schedules to be relieved of the danger of curtailment, final action must be taken now. Such action must be directed, as the, CRIMSON has constantly maintained, not to the Athletic Committee, but to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. By postponing its decision on the question of winter sports in order that a petition may be presented to the Faculty, the Athletic Committee acknowledges the superior power of the governing board. Read over the petition with great care, therefore...
...petition must be signed by all the undergraduates. It will be posted in the CRIMSON office this morning at 9 o'clock, and will also be presented at class meetings this evening...
...more anxious than the CRIMSON to see Harvard students intellectual, forceful, clear-thinking men. The Faculty desires this very thing, but is neglecting the inevitable tendencies of human nature. A man either has intellectual tastes or he has not. No amount of legislation will increase the desire for theoretical learning in the unintellectual man; no amount of athletic contest by his classmates will decrease this desire in the truly intellectual man. "You can drive a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink...
...CRIMSON is ready to admit that for a brief period there is a good deal of athletic preoccupation. For a large part of the year, however, we believe it is almost negligible, except on the part of the actual participants. These men are bound to keep up in their work, and against them the Faculty has nothing to complain...
...team play earlier in the fall. All candidates for next year's team are expected to report unless prevented by other athletics. Arrangements will be made to provide men with clothes at the field, but those who have them should bring them. Final arrangements will be announced in the CRIMSON on Monday, April...