Word: goodness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Colby has not played the University team for a number of years. The team is not particularly strong this year, although the battery is good...
...make good the deficiency which would result from the abolition of athletic subscriptions, we would suggest as a second remedy a reduction in the needless expenses. There is absolutely not reason why a man who makes a team should consider it his prerogative to be fed, nursed, clothed and amused at the expense of the Athletic Association. Yet such is the case. Most members of teams seem to consider that the College owes them a debt, which must be paid off in this manner. The situation has been described as analogous to that of a certain type of lawyer...
...seem good policy to keep a team on which much depends in a pleasing frame of mind by a little pampering now and then, but when a man who sees things from the inside makes the statement that a 33 per cent. reduction in expenditures is possible, some attempt should be made to act in accordance...
...well recognized that the present method of selecting managers is unsatisfactory. Generally speaking, a good manager must combine three qualities: executive ability, cheerfulness in doing protracted and often disagreeable work, and that indefinable faculty of getting on with the members of the team called "personality." There would appear to be nothing in common between the competitions now conducted and the finding of such...
When I first read it, I was amused and thought it good fun. But to my surprise I have discovered in talking with students who consulted me about their choice of courses for next that there are men who really consider this canvass report of favorite and regretted courses a guide for their election. Under these circumstances, it ought to be said with emphasis that taken seriously the canvass is misleading and dangerous...