Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...captain and manager shall conduct a competition as they see fit, at the close of which they shall present to the Student Council at least two candidates for the position...
Under the new system, a broader topic will be chosen than was possible before, and men may treat it as they see fit. There will be no arbitrary allotment of affirmative and negative, no attempt at concerted action. This will leave greater room for individual effort, and no previous schooling in debating will be necessary. Definitions, statistics, and citations will be less in evidence, while general intelligence and persuasive power will be of greater value than the ability to amass facts and draw fine distinctions...
...this reason that the gallery has been left open and free to the public. The directors of the dining association, however, at a meeting last week, placed in the hands of its executive committee the full power of closing the gallery to all at any time it should see fit. There has been enough of this rowdiness. Let the new members of the College take heed before the authorities are forced to close the hall from the public in shame lest outsiders conclude that the diners are hoodlums instead of gentlemen...
Harvard Crew Quarters, Red Top, Conn., June 16, 1908-E. C. Cutler '09, was tried at 2 in the University eight today in the place of S. W. Fish '08. He rowed there both morning and afternoon and seemed to fit into-the place fairly well, although the boat did not run as well as it did before Fish was declared ineligible. In all probability Cutler will stay at 2 permanently...
...lose a man from the crew through illness in the last period of training is one thing; to lose him through suspension by the Administrative Board of the University is another. The Board has seen fit to punish two members of the University squad for an infraction of the rules of the College. The case against them was perfectly clear and there was no alternative but punishment. We may be full of sympathy for the offenders, and perhaps for ourselves, but what matters it--the law must be upheld in every well regulated community and it has been...