Word: hand
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Every candidate must exercise regularly, from now until the end of the season, with chest-weights, Indian clubs, and dumb-bells. Men will be on hand in the Cage to see that no one shirks. These exercises are required to develop alertness and decision which are so necessary in a dependable baseball player. A man who is irregular in, or indifferent to attendance, will be dropped. Regular attendance will mean regular coaching and will bring the team to a uniform standard, so that the players will get together, and have that invaluable asset, team-play...
...form throughout the winter, defeating all five teams it has played, including Milton Academy and St. Paul's, the former 4 to 1, and the latter 5 to 2. In its games it has scored 26 points to 8 scored by its opponents. The Yale freshmen on the other hand, have been defeated, 1 to 0, by Pomfret earlier in the season and by Taft School, 4 to 1, on January 25. Tickets for the game at 50 cents each will be on sale at the Athletic Office until noon...
...type of books commonly employed in such courses as German A and French A represents to our mind what may fairly be considered a text-book. On the other hand, works which merely include collateral and prescribed reading, even though the contents of these books are occasionally referred to in the lectures, are most certainly not text-books. Such works are not, as a general rule, excluded from the Reading Room...
...other hand, nearly every course has its own advocates who stoutly maintain that it requires very little work. In this fact is to be found the truth about "easy" courses. A man will find any course more or less a "cinch" if the subject matter interests him. Conversely, a course in which the subject is of no interest will prove difficult no matter how little work is required...
Freshmen having friends here or from schools that regularly send men to Harvard know the relative desirability of the various buildings and are able to exercise judgment in their choice of rooms. On the other hand, men coming to Harvard from, places so far away that conditions here are not known and understood are at a decided disadvantage. An agreeable room is not a matter of vital importance but it has a great deal to do with the enjoyment and satisfaction to be had from college life, particularly in the Freshman year...