Word: demands
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...trial for some minor offense is sent to a penitentiary where the influences are not uplifting, the changes are that he will be hardened into an incurable law-breaker. But, on the other hand, if he can be turned over to an intelligent man, sufficiently older than himself to demand respect, and near enough his own age to have mutual understanding, the chances are that he may be straightened out. The college man finds the boy occupation, talks to him sensibly, and under this treatment all but the really vicious boys can be straightened...
...annual boat races with Yale will be rowed at New London on Friday, June 20. The race between the University eights will be rowed down-stream at 3.30 o'clock, or, if weather conditions demand postponement, up-stream at 6.30. The University fours will row up-stream from the railroad bridge to the Navy Yard at 9.15 A. M. the Freshman race following immediately over the same course. If postponement for the races is necessary they will be rowed if possible after the University eights race, other wise on Saturday morning. On Thursday afternoon the Freshman fours will race...
...hundred dollars are offered to contestants in Class B. Papers must be sent in on or before June 1, 1914. the committee reserves the right to award the two prizes of $1000 and $500 of class A to undergraduates in Class b, if the merits of the papers demand it. The committee also reserves the privilege of dividing the prizes offered, if justice can be best obtained thereby. Detailed particulars may be obtained from the chairman of the committee...
...Spring Athletics Number of the Illustrated opens up a field of discussion which will demand increasing attention, namely, universal athletics, voluntary or compulsory. The need of physical education is well stated in Dr. Bradford's article seeking to inculcate the opinion "that recreation is advisable as well as some daily exercise, that dissipation is wrong, that excess leads to mental impairment, and that indigestion is indication of poor health." Dr. Sargent considers the successful instruction in physical exercise given in Hemenway Gymnasium during the summer school sufficient warrant for fuller official recognition, and points out the field in which educated...
...rest the reputation which Harvard will have among thousands of people for years to come. Some of them will go into homes where the name of Harvard has never been mentioned. Some will have an opportunity to change a bad reputation to a good one. What the College may demand of them all is that they shall in none of their dealings with employers or customers cast discredit on Harvard. We all know with what readiness we judge our contemporary colleges by the single representatives from them who who now and then come among us or whom we meet during...