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...does this apply only to the president. It concerns the election of the other officers as well. These offices present splendid opportunities to the men who receive them, in giving them a chance to exert their personal influence in an official capacity. The CRIMSON trusts that 1912 will seek successfully for the best...
Thus far the competitor has been subjected to routine duties. He has now an opportunity to assert himself and exert a very considerable influence upon the worth of the paper. He has entire charge of the candidates and of the news end. He assigns stories of general interest and plans for the cuts that are to appear from time to time. He criticizes the papers from day to day for the benefit of his assistants. Every morning he must "make out the dummy," which consists of assigning to the individual candidates the topics of the day and designating...
...Tuesday afternoon, April 21, the Harvard team played the best game of the trip with the Mt. Washington Club. For the first time in years the Mt. Washington team had to exert its utmost strength to defeat the University. Mt. Washington scored first in the middle of the first half, but Cobb tied the score a few moments later. The opponents scored two more points towards the end of the half, which ended with the score of 3 to 1 in Mt. Washington's favor. In the second half, Harvard succeeded in keeping the ball in its opponents' territory...
...West who are now in the University. The graduates in the West should be urged through the graduate papers to use their influence to send men here, and everyone of the undergraduate Westerners as well should so realize the great advantages that we have here that he should exert to the utmost his influence among his friends in the West, however small the number may be, to bring more men here from the West...
Where in life shall we place the emphasis? said Dr. McClure. Emphasis is used by us to indicate special significance for our own sakes and for the influence we desire to exert. Thus it is well for us to consider what things are of proeminent importance. As we study the life of Christ, we find the general principle exemplified in his life of laying emphasis on affirmative rather than on negative things. He was a constructionist...