Word: getting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...might have been called more definitely--"The Meaning of College Life." The meaning, in one way, as it has come to one man, W. M. E. Perkins, is that college is not a four years' recreation before hard work, but that it is, nevertheless, an excellent place to get the broader education (along with the other) to be derived from mixing with men. There is much more to the article, however; and one gets the impression that the writer has still much more that he has not told. Mr. Perkins is not didactic, though his style is forceful...
Owing to the inability of the underclasses to get all the members of their teams together, the Seniors won the interclass fencing tournament yesterday afternoon by default. It has been decided not to award the cups offered by H. St. Gaudens '03 for this year. The round-robin tournament for the individual championship, for which Mr. St. Gaudens has also offered a cup, will be fenced off next Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock...
Upperclass rowing commenced on Monday this week and the captains plan to get afloat early next week...
...next ten days will be devoted to track candidates who are practicing in the hammer throw, the shot-put, the high jump, and the pole vault. It is intended in this way that an opportunity may be afforded for men who are inexperienced in the field events to get special instruction in them before regular work begins in the Stadium. Men may report at the Gymnasium at any time between 10.30 A. M. and 1 P. M., or from 3 to 5.30 P. M., but if possible the pole vaulters and shot-putters should report in the morning; the hammer...
...basketball, which can use men of almost any weight and build; (5) the managers, relieved of worry about subscriptions, could enormously increase the number of men in active competition. Even under the present system, the track management, by canvassing the dormitories and looking up individuals, was able to get 436 entries for the winter carnival. Competitions for managerships would be fairer and more valuable as experience if made in work of this kind, rather than in raising subscriptions...