Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...President Eliot at the meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs Saturday, is in line with the modern conception of the relation of a college training to practical life. Although a college education is generally admitted to be a valuable asset in all walks of life, it does not generally fit a man to enter at once into business. The college graduate who enters upon a business career at the foot finds himself passed at the beginning by men whose common school education has been supplemented by several years of practical experience. As the college man gains this experience, however...
Coach Lathrop, the third speaker, mentioned the advantage that the Freshman track team had by being on its own grounds, and said that he thought they had more than an even chance to win. Two good men were entered in each event, and everyone was in fit condition to do his best. H. Watson '10, captain of the track team, in summarizing the work of the Freshman track team, emphasized the value of a large squad in developing good track athletes...
...promise of becom ing one of the famous "teams" of the Pudding stage. Hay overworks two or three farcical expressions, but in his burlesque society drama, "Bear and Forebear," it is impossible to look upon his impersonation of the stage child without sympathy, and he throws a most attractive fit. Bacon's makeup, with its resemblance to Miss Ethel Barrymore would probably cause that lady exquisite enjoyment, and his acting still more. He imitates female affectations with a fidelity which approaches scholarship. W. P. Blodget '07 as "Ethel" made the prettiest girl of the company, and was especially clever...
...complaint is sometimes heard that there are too many restrictions and regulations governing college athletics. This may be true. What is equally true is that these regulations and restrictions have not been established to fit a theory, but are the results of attempts to check or control actual abuses, actual dangers, and to meet actual emergencies and difficulties, or actual criticisms and demands from fellow institutions. These assertions could be verified by a study of athletics at Harvard during the past quarter of a century. The present body of rules has been the slow product of years of trial...
...other hand you treat your education as a weapon the more in your hands, a weapon to fit you to do better in the hard struggle of effort and not as excusing you in any way from taking part in practical fashion in that struggle, then it will be a benefit to you. Let each of you college men remember in after life that in the fundamentals he is very much like his fellows who have not been to college, and that if he is to achieve results, instead of confining himself exclusively to disparagement of other men who achieve...