Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...glad that the CRIMSON has brought to our attention the fact that each ex-service college man should become primarily a member of an organization or "camp" in his own home community--that is a good point; but I am sorry that the CRIMSON has not seen fit to recommend the organization of a branch or separate "Harvard Legion" to be composed of members, or members-to-be, of the "American Legion" who happen at any time to be in Harvard...
...view of these facts, and considering, moreover, that the team now appears to be rounding into form worthy of a high standing in the coming Intercollegiates, it seems unfortunate that the athletic authorities have not seen fit to include the track men in their plans for resuming a training table...
...world war were obtained from students and graduates of our universities and colleges. A properly organized course of military training in the educational institutions would have increased very greatly the efficiency of the officers obtained from these institutions and would have decreased very materially the time required to fit them for service with troops...
Spring is in the air this week, and the University is restless. Class room walls seem but the dusty shells of a dying season and Sever Hall a fit subject for a systematic experiment with dynamite. Watch the professor: he feels it too. If anyone were within miles to observe him during the of attenuated seven-minute interval before his class, he too would be seen to peer dreamily out of the window, to yawn cavernously, and scratch his unhappy neck in anticipation of that soft collar which he is to assume in June. He too is looking forward...
Colonel Goetz feels, and rightly so, that the course must be of the highest standard, and that those who enter it must be fit to do the work they undertake. With the advantage of every facility that the government can afford, with intensive and highly specific theoretical instruction during the college year leading to practical work in government camps in the summer, and under the command of an officer whose energy and ability may well exact the admiration and respect of all, Harvard intends to "carry on." Will the undergraduates provide the deciding factor...