Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Adolph S. Ochs exploded into a denunciation and a challenge. If M. Siegfried didn't know what a great newspaper was, if he by any chance was unaware that the New York Times, pillar of respectability, printed all the news that's fit to print and not another line, if he had the insolence to name the Times or any other "great newspaper,"-well, he would find out what a libel suit was like. "Produce," wrote Publisher Ochs,† "a single example of a 'great newspaper' which is subservient to advertisers . . . name newspaper and owner." Name...
...there is no such thing as democracy at Harvard? No, not so bad as that perhaps; but still we could have been better fitted with a realization that America is a democratic country. Harvard as we have known it, as we have composed it, has learned of democracy chiefly in the classrooms, and then often as a political theory of doubtful value. Let us again face facts! The tide of American democracy will rise high once more. Let Harvard prepare its men to rise with it. Let Harvard undergraduates show that tolerance which is the essence of individualistic democracy...
What made the Wilson awards remarkable, especially in the opinion of men who have sported against West Point, was the supremacy of any one "Pointer" over all his fellows in all-round ability. West Pointers must be fit to get in, to stay in. Their life is rigorous, their sports many. That "Light Horse Harry" Wilson outmuscled and outgeneraled his classmates in all things, was, after all, less remarkable than the fact that in all West Point history (the Academy was founded in 1802) no previous captain of "the manliest sport" has clearly outmanned all his contemporaries in other directions...
...been nursing it ever since. The rainy weather has hindered a more rapid recovery. With Barbee's return, the Harvard squad is now intact, as R. C. Sullivan '28 resumed his shortstop berth in the clash with Rhode Island State Thursday. G. E. Donaghy '29, now that Sullivan seems fit for service during the remainder of the season, will continue to cover the hot corner in the remaining games...
With the ending of the semester the question of a reading period for Dartmouth again regains some significance. Writing in the Harvard Alumni Bulletin, President Lowell states that the experiment at Harvard has shown the most gratifying results. Whether or not a reading period of two weeks duration would fit into the Dartmouth curriculum is, of course, beside the point at this late date. There are, quite naturally, many courses that do not lend themselves gracefully to any such radical change as this would entail, coming as it would in the nature of an after thought. But where such...