Word: isn
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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These and other matters of even greater importance go uncared for simply because there is no authoritative body to see to it that attention is paid to these things. Isn't it possible to get some body picked from among the undergraduates to deal with these affairs which mean so much to Harvard men? We have recently shown that Harvard undergraduates are able to manage their own affairs and are perfectly able to protect the good name of Harvard. Why not have some machinery ready, by which such questions and others may be settled in the future...
...editorial which has recently appeared in "The Pennsylvanian," strongly advocates the appointment of an athletic committee similar to the one at Harvard, to have entire charge of athletics at the University of Pennsylvania. The editorial says in part: "It isn't a very pleasant thing to have to say, but there is and has been entirely too much heard from some of the individual Directors of the Athletic Association; too much posing before the public; too great, far too great a tendency to rush into print on every possible occasion. Not only in the present instance, but many times...
...would be inclined to answer at once that it is impracticable, that to follow such a rule would have wrecked their college course. And yet, now that the four years are over, doesn't every man realize that there was something in college far better than the competition; isn't he dissatisfied at last with nothing but a game of grab...