Word: good
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...track at Harvard can be put on a firm, successful basis. Undoubtedly the two committees now at work will establish a real system for directing in a business like way the activities of the track team. The best of systems is merely a skeleton and must be supplemented with good administrators and eager workers. Today the yearly competition for the managers begins. Without good directors, men who are alive to the needs of every individual on the squad and have at heart the success and reputation of the team, any active interest on the part of undergraduates cannot be expected...
Harvard is not democratic. It has not been for generations, and does not bid to change for generations yet to come. What is more, it makes no pretenses at democracy. The Freshman Dormitories, designed to combat the rampant spirit of caste, has done no small amount of good, but they have failed to establish any democracy--within even a single class. Harvard alumni winced at the publication of Mr. Flandrau's book, "Harvard Episodes," but they knew is substance to be true...
Democracy is not the unmixed good which this letter might seem to account it. If democracy at Harvard would bring about a modicum of tolerance, tolerance of ideas of creed, social standing, intellectual ability, then democracy ought to be our aim. If it would bring about a closer relation of professor and student, a crying need at Harvard, it is true that the experiment of the Freshman Dormitories should be carried further. At all odds, a college less democratic than Harvard is hardly conceivable. JACOB DAVIS...
...fourth in the 220-yard races. From last year's victorious freshman team de Carnea, who ran second to H. C. Flower '19 in the 100-yards and would have easily won the 220 had he not been disqualified for stepping out of his lane, has been showing extremely good will probably push the leader closely this spring...
...quarter. Ireland, who ran second in the dual meet with the University Freshmen last year, is the best of the 440 men. Prospects in the half-mile are better, however, for Rolfe, Ireland and Cooper, who have been running on Yale's championship long distance relay team, are all good men in this event...