Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...race and after a consultation they decided that some sort of insignia must be worn for the purpose of distinguishing the Harvard boat from the thirteen others. The upshot was that President Eliot and a fellow oarsmen were dispatched post-haste to Boston to supply the deficiency. The idea of brightly colored handkerchiefs occurring to them, the two entered a dry goods store and from a varied assortment of colored scarfs many selected Crimson as having the best visibility from a distance. Consequently Crimson Handkerchiefs were worn that day on the heads of the Harvard oarsmen and the hue came...
Yale followed suit soon afterwards by adopting "true blue" and the idea spread rapidly. Thus, almost by accident, the University came into possession of its crimson standard and at the same time set a fashion that was to attain wide popularity among schools and colleges through the land...
...highly unfortunate, but nevertheless true, that any new idea evolved in connection with the University, however unofficial, bears the Harvard stamp. Once, when a man who had registered as a Freshman and left within three days was killed in an unfortunate accident, though this occurred ten years later, the newspapers referred to the incident as that of "Another Harvard Man Gone Wrong...
...extra-curriculum activities at Yale. And this is mainly the work of the students themselves. But in such an atmosphere of reform it would hardly be reasonable to suppose that even the irresponsible undergraduate could escape the fever. It is worse than a revivalist camp meeting! The paramount idea in this reform is, of course, that provided men do not give as much time to outside activities, they will devote more time to their studies. By preventing a man from doing more than a certain amount of athletics, writing, managing, etc., he will be faced with the alternative of spending...
...standard to a level that will enable men of mediocre ability to attain these positions without undue effort on their part and we are removing to a very large extent the stimulus of intense competition upon which all achievement must in the last analysis, be based. Once remove the idea of competition from your undergraduate activities and the sooner you remove the activities themselves the better, for their incalculable value lies almost wholly in competition...