Word: farness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Lathrop's method of training is to watch the men individually, with comparatively little emphasis on squad work. The coaching plan now is to give all except weight men short runs for a few days, and then to make a division into squads which will run so far as possible at regular times. Mr. W. F. Garcelon '95, graduate advisory coach, will give particular attention to the hurdlers two or three times a week and in a short time Mr. E. H. Clark '96 will coach the weight men daily...
...Middle Ages, in this period came to mean mainly a knowledge of Latin. The theory of education in the Middle Ages was unfolded for us by the treatises of Aeneas Sylvius, and its practice illustrated by the writings of Vittorino Guarino and others. But these men were theorists; far greater were the two teachers who exemplify the practice of learning, though they refrain from embodying it in any formal treatise, --Vittorino da Feltre and Guarino of Verona. Both founded schools in Italy and both, by advocating a liberal education--bodily as well as mental exercise, Greek as well...
Rehearsals of the Pi Eta musical comedy, "The Counterfeiter," are being held regularly and the progress made so far has been very satisfactory...
...unencumbered by debt, is largely dependent for its running expenses on tuition fees, and there is, therefore, a small annual deficit. A large, unrestricted fund to be used chiefly for instruction is much needed. The report also dwells upon the need of a larger library. The present one is far too small for the growing demands of the college. Even more important than a library, however, is the need of another dormitory. The college has one dormitory, Bertram Hall, which accommodates only 25 students. In closing his report President Briggs says: "Among women's colleges Radcliffe College stands alone...
...coast. An account of the experience of the fishing vessels was illustrated by many unique pictures of salmon jumping over falls, and of the caribou and bear of the northern latitudes. He showed several slides of seal-hunting, scenes of winter travel by dog-team, and icebergs, towering far above his ship. He told how those great bulks of ice, apparently so strong, may collapse with a crash, broken to pieces by the unequal expansion of the melting ice within its crevices...