Word: founds
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Among the undergraduate speakers, S. B. Pennock '15 will describe boys' club work as he has found it during two years at the Roxbury Brotherhood House. R. H. Kettell '14 will speak on the business of the entertainment troupes from the University which visit the Boston and Cambridge settlement houses through the winter, while L. A. Morgan '17, social service secretary of Phillips Brooks House, will map out the work for the year. W. B. Pirnie '15, Chairman of the Social Service Committee, will preside...
Because of the small number of candidates for the Freshman football manager it has been found necessary to issue another call. Last year 1917 sent out 75 managerial aspirants, and with a larger class 1918 should at least do as well. On account of the interdormitory series, there will be eight positions to be filled instead of two. Accordingly, the chance of success is much greater than formerly and should attract all Freshmen not engaged in some other activity. The opportunity offered of meeting other members of the class should not be overlooked...
...possible in football to deliver the final stroke with kicking. What the use of artillery in modern warfare will mean in the end remains to be seen, but the comparison is made in the light of past experience. There is in kicking a unanimity of opinion not to be found in the forward pass. Kicking is not the "joker" that the forward pass is, for the reason that certain of its principles seem to be widely understood. It is the bulwark of defence, and ever since the onside kick has been legislated out of business, it is a valuable offensive...
...requirement for admission was found: "When any Schollar is able to Read Tully or such like classical Latine Authour ex tempore, & make and speake true Latin in verse and prose suo (ut aiunt) Marte, and decline perfectly the paradigmes of Nounes and verbes in ye Greeke toungue then may hee bee admitted into ye Colledge, nor shall any claime admission before such qualifications." In 1734 one record shows in addition to the above, "Whoever shall be able to read, construe & parse ordinary Greek, as in the New Testament, Socrates or such like, and be skilled in making Latin verse...
...this period the degrees were called "first" and "second" degrees, that is A.B. and A.M. In 1602 the requirement for first degree was: "Every Scholar that on proofe is found able to read ye originall of ye old & New testament into ye Latin tongue, and to Resolve them logically, withall beeing of honest life & conversation and at any publike act hath ye approbation of ye overseers, & Master of ye Colledge may bee invested with his first degree." Upon taking his first degree, a student was called, following the practice of the English universities, "Dominus" or "Sir," a title used...