Word: knowes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...outcome of a feeling that the choice of managers should be based upon a uniform system rather than that the authorities in each sport should select new assistants with no check except the nominal requirement of approval by the Athletic Committee. The voters cannot all be expected to know the candidates personally, nor are they always fitted to judge of the executive ability of the men proposed. They should not, however, feel that this excuses them from attendance at the elections. They will in general be guided by the judgment of the manager who has conducted the trial...
...large and comprehensive opportunity was given to the undergraduates to criticise the instruction provided for them, though the information thus collected proved less suggestive than had been hoped. If the editorial writer wishes to serve the University in this matter, he will do it better by letting the authorities know how the evils hinted at affect the student rather than by advising changes in that part of our system on which, by the nature of the case, he obviously is not and cannot be well informed...
Seniors intending to go on the class picnic, on May 28, are requested to sign the blue-book at Leavitt & Peirce's as soon as possible, as it is absolutely necessary that the committee know in advance how many are likely to attend. All Seniors who are planning to draw posters for the picnic are asked to bring them to Holworthy 17 on or before Thursday evening. 1907 PICNIC COMMITTEE...
...traditions of the College, we have few occasions when we can show our appreciation and interest in tangible form. The idea of celebrating the three hundredth anniversary of the birth of John Harvard is a novel one and one which furnishes many possibilities for unique and effective ceremonies. We know that undergraduates will join heartily in any celebration which is arranged, but we feel that they should be willing to co-operate with the officers of the Memorial Society this spring by making suggestions which are so eagerly solicited...
Criticism, said Mr. Murray, has to a great extent shattered the former conception that the Iliad was written by one man--Homer. Even if the poet had a name, we know nothing of him. It seems more probable that he was an imaginary ancestor, invented to receive the worship of his admirers. It is at any rate assured that the incomparable poet did not write the whole Iliad, but that it was a work of successive ages, and probably, at the end of a long period of gradual development, fell into the hands of some great poet. Although criticism...