Word: lasting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...most benefit. We are lowering the standard to a level that will enable men of mediocre ability to attain these positions without undue effort on their part and we are removing to a very large extent the stimulus of intense competition upon which all achievement must in the last analysis, be based. Once remove the idea of competition from your undergraduate activities and the sooner you remove the activities themselves the better, for their incalculable value lies almost wholly in competition...
Colby has only played one game this season. Last Saturday they had little trouble in beating Maine...
...final performance of "Crowns and Clowns," the Hasty Pudding Club play, will be given in Jordan Hall this evening at 8.15. The show has proved to be one of the best the Pudding has ever given; it achieved great has success in New York and in Boston last Monday. The New York Times called it "Corking good entertainment," while the New York Herald stated that it was "cleverly conceived." A limited number of tickets are still available at Leavitt & Perice's and the Co-operative Branch at $2.75 apiece, including...
...list now includes 300 men who died in the armed service of the United States and her Allies, and twenty-four others who served in auxiliary branches. Foreign armies are well represented, the English coming first with a total of 22, the French, second, with 15, and the Canadian last with 6. It is a scarcely known fact that three University men served in the German armies. They were, however, German citizens and had only taken graduate work at the University...
...coaching. The poor showing, however, has not been due to lack of effort, but rather to lack of individual and collective aggressiveness. No one has been guilty of indifference, but almost the whole nine has failed to show the spirit of a winning organization. The near-informal team of last spring, although painfully weak in ability and defeated all but once, played with a spirit that would make the 1919 aggregation unbeatable. Very fortunately, the players themselves realize the cause of their poor record to date, and will show an entirely different brand of baseball this afternoon. The important games...