Word: expresse
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...accordance with the request of the Athletic Committee the Student Council held a meeting last Tuesday for a discussion of athletics and passed two important resolutions. Both of them express the Student Council's attitude toward the athletic policy of the University and will be received by the Athletic Committee as the recommendations of the undergraduate body for a further course of action...
...House of Representatives adopted its resolution on the right of self-determination for Ireland diplomatic discretion was apparently absent from that part of the Capitol. Without at all considering the merits of the English-Irish controversy, it is difficult to understand how the House felt itself called upon to express an official opinion, uninvited, upon the affairs of another nation. The danger to the friendly relations now existing between England and the United States which accompanies such action by the representatives is realized if we point the resolution in the other direction, and consider what a storm of indignation would...
Yale is anxious to resume the annual Thames regatta with the University this year on a pre-war basis, according to Professor Mather Abbott, faculty director of rowing at Yale. "I hope that the report regarding the decision made by Harvard is true," said Professor Abbott, when asked to express his opinion upon the recent recommendation of the University Rowing Committee. He commented further...
...removal of the semi-professional spirit. Compulsory athletics we could neither regard as practical nor as advisable. Those who had seen the actual working of compulsion suggested that the opposition which the idea raised in the individual almost totally offset the advantages of the training offered. Although we cannot express an opinion on the matter till a more definite plan is proposed, yet it would seem more reasonable to organize the new system with a view toward extending the opportunities rather than toward requiring the students to act against their inclinations...
...would they not all choose a physical course, and thus lower the standard for a degree? Concerning the value of any single academic course when compared with a course in gymnastics or athletics as a preparation for a life's work at this thing I do not care to express an opinion. But as a practical scheme for introducing required physical courses into an elective system it seems, to me this objection could be easily over-come. If at the present time the college requires the candidate for an A.B. or S.B. degree to pass in studies amounting to sixteen...