Word: helping
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...feels free at Harvard to develop his own personality as he will, without help or hindrance. If he has unusual ability he finds many opportunities for development, and at the same time finds a stimulating fellowship of kindred spirits who, though often few in number, have found themselves thrown together by a selective process...
...work in any case--nothing. But it lacks the funds to perfect the system of notes, formulas, memory-aids and the whole machine-shop of tutorial pills and capsules; and therefore lacks the prestige of other establishments. Each additional man who turns to it for a tutoring place, will help himself financially, and the Secretary in University 5 to more adequate supplies. Each man who turns to it be tutored will help himself, in that he will receive true tutoring instead of the predigested summaries learned today and forgotten tomorrow of the highly organized agencies. While we do not expect...
...expected at Yale, Mr. Armstrong will be "resident graduate in charge of rowing" and will have most authority, although, as has been customary at Yale, the captain's views will receive every consideration. Mr. Nickalls, who was coach and member of the Leander Rowing Club in England, will help Mr. Armstrong in arriving at the best stroke for the crew. Coach Gianinni, it is understood, will have charge of the training of the men. He will devote his energies to doing what few Yale coaches have achieved in recent years, namely, keeping the men from going stale...
...decidedly in favor of this plan of both teams keeping their coaches from the players' bench, for after the game is over the players will all know that the result of the game was due to their efforts and not to help received during the game from the more experienced professional coach. Not only does this plan put an added responsibility on both the captains and the players, but it will mean that more stress will be put on co-operation and team play. With this in view through the early season, the players will learn to depend on themselves...
Unfortunately men were not created paragons; fortunately for their interest in life, they were not created alike. What helps one may hinder another; and the ideal of a college system is that which will hinder the strong man least, and help the weaker men most. Concentration and Distribution, in holding many up to a certain standard, may be a real hindrance to a few; but criticisms of it have risen chiefly, we believe, not from this cause, but from a failure to distinguish between a real hindrance and an inconvenience, such as any set of rules and especially...