Word: exerts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...chemistry buildings, the dedication of the new Dental School, and a closer relation for mutual benefit between Harvard and the municipal authorities of Cambridge. Every one of these institutions is worthy of the highest praise, particularly the altered entrance requirements and the modification of the elective system. Both will exert a very direct beneficial influence: the first will at once open Harvard to men thoroughly trained in the ground-work of knowledge, rather than to men who have crammed at the last minute for a few highly specialized examinations. The second will turn out men of neither too broad...
...especially in the line, for the Brown game showed that. In our game with Brown, our line showed weakness. Thus matters are not as rosy as the general public thinks. Then, too, the Dartmouth game is coming and will not be an easy game, but one where Harvard must exert all her efforts...
...singles for the right to challenge R. C. Seaver, the state champion, N. W. Niles '09 defeated H. Johnson, 6-3, 6-0, 6-4. Johnson was unable, during the first two sets, to solve Niles's service, but the last set was close and Niles was forced to exert himself to the utmost in order to win. Last year Niles was defeated in the fourth round. F. J. Sulloway '05, who challenged Seaver last year, was put out in the first round this year by A. Sweetser...
...other hand, when applied to sports within the College this rule seems ineffective and harmful, for it affords no real stimulus and deprives men of legitimate and normal exercise. In the first place no man will exert himself over-much in order to be eligible for a tennis tournament or to play on the "Chuck-a-Pucks," and in the second place, these scrub sports do not require any more time or energy than the normal youth should devote to h is daily exercise. In discouraging this the arrangement is distinctly harmful. Here we might well profit by the example...
...prescribed for ministers, but this is not the case. The search for new truth is encouraged and its results are gladly received on all sides. As a schoolmaster, the minister is given an opportunity to develop in young men the qualities of spiritual manhood. As a missionary, he can exert a powerful influence in molding the future civilization of the east. A parish minister can organize his parish house, clubs, and social settlements with the great advantage of working solely for the good of others...