Word: knowes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Harvard has hitherto stood for a conception of athletics which we all know and believe in. And further the CRIMSON has much influence. But if you put this influence at the service of any coaches who wish to give a team a public lashing; (I say this because this morning's editorial shows every sign of having been inspired by some one connected with the squad); if you allow yourself to let what are really the expressions of interested parties appear to come from some impartial and justly indignant member of the onlooking student body by publishing communications anonymously...
...moulded by the coach according to his will. Such a point of view is utterly foreign to the Harvard system, which, on the contrary, strives to make the University debater fully dependent on his own discretion and best judgment, holding out to him as an ideal that he should know his subject so thoroughly as to be able to take part in a debate with Yale or Princeton with nothing committed to memory, with nothing rigidly predetermined, but with the whole question clear in his mind, every argument at his tongue's end, alert, ready to adapt his reasoning closely...
...next importance is Mr. Bell's critique on Joseph Conrad, which, if not invariably concise, is yet always interesting. It may not make every one want to know Mr. Conrad's work better--his work is sometimes too disagreeable--but it is likely to make every one at least curious to learn more...
...what little interference could be formed, and the line held weakly, allowing their opponents to break through and tackle the runner for a loss. There was little evidence of team-play, nor did the men help along the runner, when tackled, to any appreciable extent, few players seeming to know where the ball...
...developed, have, in general character, remained constant. Early justice was rough, and the county-court, perhaps, a disorderly public-meeting; yet in its publicity lay the root of our present system. Our courts, in contrast to the inquisitorial tribunals of the Romans, have followed a rule of neutrality; they know only what is brought before them, they are impartial. Ever since the middle of the thirteenth century, when the King's judges broke down local custom, men have been governed by a law and custom of the realm which has been judge-made. Finally, unlike the administrative...