Word: lead
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Captain Gardner and his team-mates are to be congratulated on the splendid work they have done in bringing the hockey championship to Harvard. To accomplish this they have met and defeated brilliant teams, and have won their position in the lead by steady team-work and skillful individual play. The winning of this championship adds to the lustre of a year that stands out already as one of the most noteworthy in Harvard's honorable athletic history...
...another opportunity for service is open, and President-Emeritus Eliot, with the broad view and profound insight of the scholar, has outlined the duty of the American bar to lead the way to a great legal reform. The defects of our existing institutions of law and of our methods of judicial procedure, President Eliot has presented in succinct and forcible terms, and he emphasizes particularly that public opinion is demanding reform. Here, certainly is another field in which Harvard University through the Law School may show that the higher educational institutions of the land have their thumb on the public...
...remedy, he proposed the decision of the Chicago vice commission-- the establishment of an unpaid commission of citizens to be named by judges, not city officials, and to have special potpies must lead in the work...
...Sumner asserted that three traits are necessary. The first is knowledge, the second is loyalty to city and country, and the third is action, or the regular assumption of public duties. Correction of the social evils must come through education, and the college men with their exceptional opportunities must lead in the work...
...fundamental causes of the popularity and attraction of athletics lies, in the fact that all seasons in all forms of sport lead to a common goal--a contest with Yale. This is the supreme test of the year's work, and its result determines the success or failure of that work. In the move to make intellectual activity as popular and attractive as competition in athletics, we take it upon ourselves to suggest that a similar final and supreme test be established in the realm of scholarly pursuits. Several years ago Professor Josiah Royce made this same suggestion, when...