Word: direct
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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These few years allow them to determine their tastes and to direct their forces so that when they do step' into the active world no time need be lost in adjustment. However, this very seclusion renders the collage graduated unfamiliar with that very important element of competition. The ability to compete seems to be one of the cardinal rules of getting...
...come out and coached them yet. The nearest approach was in class swimming and basketball this year--successful but not successful enough. Physical benefits were derived; there was organization; and still something was lacking. There must be one king-pin, one master mind in charge who can direct and administer an unbroken policy even in these smaller leagues. This is the function of the Director of Athletics...
...becoming a "local university". Harvard should adopt similar measures. The diffusing of information among Western and Southern schools apropos to the requirements for admission and departments of the University; creating better facilities for men of those schools to take the entrance examinations; establishing regional scholarships;--all would tend to direct large numbers of men to Harvard which would benefit both the men and the University. No one will deny that the academic side of Harvard is the apotheosis of all educational institutions. Why, then, should the other equally important side of a college education be neglected? W. R. Foss...
...Gilbert '11 received the Distinguished Service Cross with the following citation:--"For extraordinary heroism in action near Fismes, France, Aug. 26, 1918, and near Remily, France, Nov. 10, 1918. On Aug. 26, Lieutenant Gilbert made a daylight reconnaisance of the ruins of Tannerie near Fismes, entered Fismes under direct observation and fire of the enemy, and continued his reconnaisance along the Rouen-Rheims road under machine gun fire, for the purpose of ascertaining whether or not the terrain was favorable for an attack on the Chateau du Diable. On November 10 he voluntarily led a patrol across the river Meuse...
...near Revillon, when his Battalion advanced, this officer in command of a platoon of Company M. 308th Infantry, continued to lead his men though wounded. By his won personal courage and example, he urged them forward through enemy wire to their objective. Even when mortally wounded, he continued to direct the consolidation of his platoon's position, refusing medical attention in faver of others who had a better chance to live...