Word: knowes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...privilege that are perpetrated each year. In every class there are many men who are capable of electing their courses with forethought and an eye to a well-rounded education; but there are as many more who elect an irrelevant mass of studies, either because they do not honestly know what they want, or because they are easily influenced by rumors of "snaps," and, with their friends, follow the lines of least resistance...
...yesterday's issue the Yale News published an interview with President Eliot on Harvard's football situation. He has simply relieved their minds on a matter of which we already felt assured--that Harvard will play next year just as usual. Yale did not know, as we do, that in the natural course of events authority vests in the Athletic Committee, in whose loyalty to intercollegiate athletics we now have confidence. Such an authoritative expression of opinion as a Faculty vote worried our rivals nearly as much as it did us at the time. It is but an example...
...suggested that a cupboard be built, preferably in the Union, where class records of all kinds may be kept under lock and key. Each year, when a new committee is appointed, the chairman can then lay his hands instantly on a store of experience of past years. He will know just when is the right time to begin work, just what expenses he may expect to meet, and, in short, will be relieved of the chief responsibility in working out the problems of his task...
...work, to act as Graduate Manager and as administrative officer." At present Mr. Garcelon's duties are by no means inclusive, but whether or not he will become such an officer depends upon future developments. We welcome his official connection with Harvard athletics in general, for we know that whatever he undertakes it will be with the same whole-hearted spirit in which he has stood behind the track team...
...track management should have been able to foresee the result of its action. It may be, as our contributor points out, that this was an impossibility. Let us hope so. We are all just as anxious to turn out a winning team in the spring. We know that the coaches have done and will do their best. From now on we shall look forward to our prospects and not back at our mistakes...