Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...given at both meetings. The freshman meeting is intended as an opportunity of giving new men a chance to come out, whether they have ever taken part in athletics before or not. Mr. Lathrop will be on Holmes Field every morning from 11-1, and will give all the help he can in both the track and field events...
...explained that this committee had the power to choose the captain; decide on the policy under which the crew should be conducted; select the men, and direct the crew in every way, both in and out of the boat. A change so revolutionary in its character could not help materially affecting the pride of the undergraduates in their crew. To take the management of so important a department of athletics entirely out of the hands of the students and place it absolutely under the control of a committee of graduates, must necessarily result in diminishing the interest of the students...
...undergraduates need help and advice in the management of their crew, instead of a governing committee like that of last year, why do they not appoint an advisory committee of graduates? Such a committee, appointed with definitely limited powers, could do much by their advice and assistance to aid the captain in his duties. With their help the captain could decide on the policy of the crew and the details of the stroke. With the captain and crew in thorough accord with its advisors, the task of developing the eight would be far easier, and when to this is added...
...Beecher, Bull, Pratt, Carter and Woodruff, and they have gone to work with a will to develop new material. Two fields have been laid out, so that four teams can practice at once. This plan will give all the candidates good practice in team work and will especially help the freshman eleven...
...light matter. But nevertheless we have decided to make the change, believing it to be for the best, and trusting to the generosity and good will of the students and graduates to make up in subscriptions what we have lost financially, and to come forward with contributions to help fill the extra column. It has always been a matter of sorrow to us that the graduates of our university should take such little interest in the college press. But we shall try to make our columns interesting to the graduates as well as to the undergraduates, and we trust that...