Word: idea
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...meeting held in Upper Massachusetts last evening was very well attended, about 200 men being present. Captain Fish spoke first and explained that this year for the first time Freshmen were called out for football practice before the opening of College, in order that the coaches could get some idea of the ability of the candidates. Mr. W. F. Garcelon L.'95 then dwelt on the vital importance of keeping up the standard of athletics by careful attention to College work. Coach Waterbury was the last speaker and explained what was expected of each man on the field. Steady...
...change is said to have been induced by the opinions expressed by certain graduates who witnessed the last time row of the crew before it left Cambridge. The idea appears to have arisen from the manifest lack of life which has been the characteristic fault of the crew throughout the latter part of the season. At the outset, the material and prospects were remarkable; the crew in its early stages seemed to be further advanced than last year's eight. Of late the rowing has fallen off, and the crew in its present stage is probably not as good...
...present system is adhered to. What is the use of having a competition, if the best competitor does not win out? The money itself is hardly a consideration, since there are other and less obnoxious ways of raising that. The sole actuating cause seems to be the idea that there must be a competition of some sort, while there is not enough other work to be done to try out the capacity of the contestants...
...Associated Harvard Clubs, which was held at Cincinnati today and yesterday, was of unusual importance to the University because it gave about four hundred graduates their first mental and physical view of President Lowell. A great deal depended on the graduates' first impression of him, as one the idea which he himself formed of those strong men of the Middle West Whence comes so much of Harvard's support and influence...
...meeting. At the dinner W. W. Taylor '68, president of the Cincinnati Harvard Club, presided and acted as toastmaster. President Lowell, in the words of a prominent graduate, "in a strong, clean-cut, direct speech showed himself to be a man who at once impresses one with the idea that he can be trusted to do for the University the right thing at the right time." He said, "College training must mean something more than the bare intellectual sense. The college man is not to be made from books alone, athletics and the social side of college life are equally...