Word: directing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...meeting of the Intercollegiate Football Rules Committee yesterday, several minor changes in the rules were decided upon. Only two of these will have a direct influence upon the game, the others being mainly with regard to duties of officials. These are: (1) A player turning to catch a forward pass must not be tackled until he has caught the ball; (2) if the ball, while in play, hits an official, it shall not be declared dead, but play shall continue...
Going into the Yard for the Senior year appeals to some men because it is inexpensive, to others because it is pleasant and to a few because it is a direct means of increasing the spirit of class unity and intimate friendship. All three reasons are valid. It is cheaper to live in the Yard than anywhere else except pigeon-hole private houses on the back streets. It is more informal, more centralized, more suited to the nature of Senior year and in every way more attractive than a come-and-go existence in the scattered sleeping places...
...source of regret that the training tables should ever have been removed from the Union, but lack of space made this imperative. As athletics and the Union are the two institutions which are primarily open to all undergraduates, it seems fitting that they should emphasize this common quality by direct association of some sort...
...last analysis, all of them have been imbued with a most generous desire to spread farther the influence of the College and make its field of usefulness broader. Though animated by the same purpose, they have sought their end in different ways. Some have founded scholarships, some have given direct aid, and some have exerted their influence towards giving high school men an idea of the nature and the advantages of Harvard. The value of this national movement cannot be overestimated, and it is one of the greatest tributes that the graduates can pay to the College...
...undergraduate hallucination which assumes an entire absence of any connection between examination grades and post-collegiate success." The man who takes the view that studies are all that are worth while at College is doubtless narrow-minded, but, on the other hand, the man who fails to recognize the direct relation of studies to general capacity and effectiveness in after life is no less short-sighted...