Word: happen
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...last twenty years, of the choice of an unsuitable captain mainly because he was popular--'a good fellow,' so to speak--one whom every one liked. It is a great mistake. She has made it conspicuously on two occasions, but it is written down that that thing must not happen again. If one can generalize about this question of choosing a captain, I should say that Harvard has chosen her captains for their popularity or personal playing ability. Yale has looked almost wholly at football fibre and leadership. Yale is right, in my opinion. The third factor is the head...
...hardest problems every year is to get certain thin-chested, self-supporting Freshmen to eat enough, a task which this article may make all the harder. There are also two pleasantly written descriptions of the new subway and of the new Bussey Institution, which will interest those who happen not to have heard the facts before. And finally, there are a humorous defense of the chess club as a training school in "the manly art of (mental) self-defense," and an excellent receipt for making successful debating teams...
...every room, and by the further addition of one spray to each of the existing showers. Thayer, at present, does not afford much opportunity to use water. There are a very few set bowls scattered throughout the building. For the vast majority of the men, who do not happen to get one of the rooms thus equipped, one set bowl is provided in the basement of each entry. In each of the entries in Thayer there is but one shower with four sprays. There should be one on each-floor...
...proper punishment is not the expulsion of the individuals, for the Polo Club will be drunk again next year, and much the same thing may happen. The evil cannot be remedied by a reform of the club, because, being a purely Freshman organization, there is no steadying influence to keep it straight. The only thing that can be done which is worth doing at all is the complete extinction of this sole surviving Freshman club. What is the best method for doing so is not here to be discussed...
...unfortunate restriction which the custom of our theatres imposes upon the art of the dramatist--that he must scale all his pictures of life to the measure of about two hours and a half. Clearly things do not happen with just that degree of complexity which makes possible the stating and solving of a problem within any one limit of time. So we are ready to welcome such a departure as enables us to see this week at the Bijou Dream Theatre a piece written to be played in half an hour...