Word: getting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Naval Reserve. I approve very highly of Secretary Roosevelt's plan of having naval units at various colleges, as the best means of educating more reserve officers, and I sincerely hope that such a unit will be established at Harvard next year. In order to help us get through the period of emergency, the Naval Academy at Annapolis was increased four-fold, and a great number of petty and warrant officers were commissioned. In addition to these regular navy men, many civilians who had had experience on the water were made officers. The men in this latter class...
...subject will frequently be dismissed with the common maxim: "You get out of your college exactly what you put into it," and undoubtedly, the student himself is, in large measure to blame for his attitude. But we are inclined to believe that the fault does not rest entirely with the undergraduate. Of course, it is inevitable that some men will take a more active interest in scholarship than others; the point is to increase the average interest, and to break down the wall which now exists between the lecture room and life...
...undergraduate is to claim a part in contemplated reforms at Harvard, as he has a right to do, he must be absolutely sure in order to get a hearing for his views, that he has fulfilled his obligations in trying to make the present machinery of the University work successfully. He cannot in justice deny that the responsibility of whether that machinery has worked well or ill rests largely with the attitude he has taken. Take the case of concentration and distribution, which is such a bugbear at present. How many have given serious study and thought to the subject...
...college are B. Brock, who has won his letter in the high-jump, G. B. Larkin, a good quartermiler, P. Kissam, who was a broad-jumper on his Freshman team, and C. Boyd, who is an excellent two-miler, and has had considerable cross-country experience. If Larkin can get into shape, it is probable that Princeton will be represented by a one-mile relay team, in addition to the medley and four-mile teams which are entered in the Penn. Carnival...
...direct communication with workshops throughout America, and endeavor to draw some of the best material in them to the real stage. There are always bound to be a few highlights among the amateurs in workshop plays, and there seems no reason why we should not in some way get in touch with them and give them an opportunity for a stage career. A place cannot of course be found for all, but as in any other profession, there is always the chance for those with real ability. For those who have the ability, the training and assistance of the workshop...