Word: harvarde
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...giving up of this sport would be a disaster, and if it is to be continued. It should be under such conditions as will bring honor to Harvard and health to the men who represent her. A. GRADUATE
...given. It is also true that the overshadowing importance of football in the public interest would be likely to divert the bulk of the coaching away to that sport. It is hard, we know, to find money to foster these minor sports which bring in no gate receipts, and Harvard of course is very, very poor. But the fact remains that other and smaller colleges can and do provide professional coaches for their cross-country runners which for the present Harvard seems to lack, and that while this difference exists Harvard will continue to be at a disadvantage...
...reasonable to suppose that, if the Harvard cross-country team had met Yale with an equality of skilled professional coaching, the first six finishers in that race would have been all Yale men? Is it not humiliating that in the meet with Technology, which most of our men entered under the handicap of physical disability, the paid coach of their opponents, after seeing his team to an over-whelming victory, gave, out of the kindness of his heart, counsel as to the well-being of the Harvard team, which he evidently pitied as being sheep without a shepherd...
...preparatory schools, for even the latter are very generally provided with adequate coaches. Their companions in these schools who have passed into the teams of other colleges, even the smallest ones, have had this training continued until they have developed into strong runners. But those who have come to Harvard have met there a "laissez aller" policy that has put them at the mercy of their competitors...
...Stanton Coit, lecturer to the West London Ethical Society, will lecture on "The Awakening of Democracy in England" under the auspices of the Harvard Socialist Club in Emerson F this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. Professor William James M.'69 will preside. The lecture will be open to the public...