Word: lesson
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...lesson these men offer to the College is particularly valuable in view of our recent victory. What we want is victories in future years, and these we can get if we have more men come out and be willing to work hard. Many men come out for track--and other sports--and quickly get discouraged and stop. Many men never come out, who by hard work could surely make themselves useful to the team. Other men come out, and in the face of hard competition, stick out, work hard, and in the end come through, as did these men Saturday...
...This lesson should be made much of particularly among the underclassmen. It simply means that we can always have winning teams if we can get out more men like these. A. SENIOR...
Incidentally, President Lowell's reply reads Professor Meyer a valuable lesson in courtesy
...have listened to the lectures of Mr. F. Hopkinson Smith must feel that his death means a real loss to the students of Harvard University. In the inculcation of courtesy which belonged to the older type of gentlemen he has brought home in his successive visits here a lesson than which none is more needed in American life. The value of his teaching moreover has always been exemplified as well as enhanced by his own rare charm of manner and of utterance. Even although his instruction abides in memory we shall yet miss the inspiring example of the teacher. BENJAMIN...
...keep one pace with no help outside from the teacher. There should be personal help. what good is such a pace? My son got an F in English. Do you wonder that seventy-nine per cent failed? Each day every student should be made to understand and comprehend every lesson. This everlasting "getting by" is the curse of the age. There should be spelling matches, occasionally. Please pardon. A. MOTHER...