Word: findings
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...incentives to work. "Leisure," the author says, "means a time for quiet reading, thinking and talking." Emphatically it does not mean a time of stagnation. Neither is it time taken away from study. A boy entering college is at a very impressionable, formative period. We, the teaching force, should find means to stir him intellectually, to rouse his ambition to do, and should also give him time to think, for all the new ideas to expand and develop. We should advise him, because he is still immature and likely to misjudge his powers and drain his strength...
...cannot find fault with fencing as a sport as we can with basketball, because it has been shown to be one of the best forms of indoor exercise, and is recommended by many experts for the general development of the body. But apparently the attractions of the game do not excite the ambitions of many Harvard undergraduates, and the uniform unsuccess of the team has not tended to increase its popularity. As long as the feeling exists that the number of intercollegiate athletic contests should be reduced, and even if there were no such feeling, it would be well...
...realizes that it is not chance and accident, but honest work that has earned this praise. No one is so proud and so glad as the Faculty who know you best and whose only hope is that in after-life, winning or losing, you may find friends by your side...
...however, not only a branch of knowledge, but a branch of action. Since ancient times advance in the theory of government has been made equal to the advance of science. By observing the practical operation of government in foreign countries and by studying man and his motives we can find the requirements of an upright judiciary. The operation of government used to depend on force alone. What that system lacked was the recognition of the individual character...
...Faculty point of view, as preventing absences from afternoon lectures. The only Wednesday game on the list is the day before the formal opening of College, so that as a matter of fact there are only eight games during term-time. Surely the most radical believer in curtailment can find little to object to in this schedule...