Word: hoping
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Oxford and Cambridge occupy an unique position in the minds of Englishmen, a position to which no college or group of colleges can ever hope to attain in the United States. Through whatever spectacles one views English history from the thirteenth century onward, he cannot help but perceive the influence of the universities on the life of the country. I need not elaborate the point. It is sufficient to say that, like the best of everything else in English life, the universities have been saved for 'the best...
...soldiers be properly equipped, and our military reorganized before we even begin to think of carrying war into our educational institutions. Harvard has, and I am convinced will do, as she always has done her share, not more than her share, in war as in peace. But let us hope and pray, that she will never have to setforth again her students to war. One of the great causes of war is the excitation of the people of a country to such point that they must have war in order to justify their preparations. "Be peaceful and you shall have...
...highly successful season, playing in a manner which leaves no doubt as to the strength of her team,--especially in the forward line. Yale is undefeated, with a possible championship in view. The University, on the other hand, has already lost to Dartmouth, and can at the most hope only for a tie at the end of the season. In other words, we have less at stake tonight than Yale. While beating a New Haven team is glory enough in itself to call forth the best efforts of the University seven, yet tonight's contest is harder for Harvard than...
President Hibben of Princeton has expressed the hope in his annual report that paid coaches in college athletics will soon disappear. He maintains that athletics are suffering from an over-organized system of coaching, and that he believes that more responsibility should be placed on team captains. "If undergraduates were released from unnatural domination of their sports by graduate coaches, intercollegiate sport would be liberated from the abnormal incubus of a superimposed system which tends to make puppets of the players. In order that men may be resourceful in time of emergency they must be schooled...
Good crew men are developed only through regular and consistent training, offered by practice on the machines; many first rate oarsmen are "machine-made." Training for all who hope to win places on the crews next spring should start in earnest today. Freshmen especially are urged to attend as regularly as possible...