Word: lessing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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While it is quite without the province of one who follows intercollegiate sport in a capacity more or less critical, gratuitously to offer opinions outside his own medium of publicity concerning the conduct of athletic affairs at one institution or another, yet the question of resident coaches as opposed to the instructor engaged merely for the season has assumed a wide-spread importance which may be regarded as justifying the CRIMSON--or whatever university daily, for that matter,--in opening wide doors and windows for the admission of whatever light may come from any source or quarter...
...there are far too many indications of it right here at home. Let us preserve American ideals and stand fast to the principles of ordered liberty by observing which our country has grown great and by ignoring which it may go the decadent way of other nations once no less strong than...
...Names, dates, and official titles, however essential for historic record, are likely to convey but an inadequate idea of a man's real life and work. In the present case they are even less significant than usual. The key to the characters and career of the man whom Harvard mourns today was his overflowing. human sympathy. It enabled him to vitalize everything to which he set his hand, to turn the most perfunctory and mechanical bit of drudgery into an interesting and important task. It was the source of his success as a teacher and administrator. It made...
...himself a solution of the perennial problem of 'how to bring about a closer relation between teacher and student.' Throughout his life he had struggled heroically against the galling restrictions imposed by a physical infirmity, and achieved results which would have been impossible for a spirit less gallant. When the great war came, and it was evident that he could not go to fight he manfully stuck to his post at Harvard, devoting all his energies to maintaining the continuity of instruction, and to keeping alive the undergraduate organizations with which he was most closely identified. This was his contribution...
...indeed, well past the "showerbath" stage, but as yet far from the spirit of Elizabethan days which looked upon a man as hardly a gentleman who could not carry his part in a glee. The following eight reasons for singing are no less applicable to Harvard men because they were written in the sixteenth century...