Word: knowes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ideal behind physical exercise at Harvard today is supervised recreational competition. Gone are the days when boys assemble in a gymnasium to follow in sheep-like fashion the lead of a physical director. This form of exercise has been replaced by competitive games, and it is interesting to know that in this building these, is a very small space devoted to the old type gymnasium facilities. I doubt if there will be more than a dozen pairs of dumb bells or Indian clubs in the whole building, but in their place we shall have swimming, wrestling, boxing, fencing, basketball, indoor...
...people know that at the present time we have over 100 tennis courts, 11 football fields, 9 baseball fields, 3 soccer fields, 2 lacrosse fields, 2 running tracks and over 100 shells for boating. Unfortunately, the weather conditions force us indoors between December 1 and March 1, and in passing it may be interesting to note that between October 1 and May 1 over 64,000 man half-hour periods of squash were played by students of the University on the University squash courts...
Educationally Harvard is operating at present under a system of distribution and concentration. In the Freshman year we have distribution "trying to know a little about many things" perhaps an occasional movie on Friday evening included. Upon this platform is built the concentration "trying to know a little more about some one thing." Upon the platform of the Freshman dormitories the University is building these Houses, to deepen, richen and concentrate those many acquaintances and experiences with which a Freshman first comes in contact when he enters college...
...give greater opportunity for the student to really know his tutor to educate himself outside as well as inside the classroom and to study because it interests...
When her love "clears" by consummation, her art acquires clean, voluptuous curves, a well-defined posterlike quality. Suddenly, however, her art switches to violent angles and she casts out love. Then, tiring of angles, she decided to have a baby, curious to know what kind of art supplements motherhood...