Word: letting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...East would be similar to our own under the same circumstances. If we are to continue to play the strongest teams of the East, we must play them on an equal footing. If they can be persuaded to cut down their schedules, the scheme deserves consideration. If not, let us use our influence for what seems best, but not perform damaging theoretical experiments upon ourselves...
...days in our midst will be made particularly pleasant to him through evidences of appreciation of what he has done for us. Like Professor Kuhnemann, he has given his services with single-minded and ardent devotion to his students and with passionate zeal for the cause which he represents. Let us not be reluctant to make make him feel that his splendid work has borne fruit and that he has done a great service not only to his own country, but to Harvard University as well. KUNO FRANCKE...
...present writer has been obliged to call in the aid of musical and artistic friends, for whose judgement he is grateful, but not responsible. It is reported that the song may be burlesque, but it is not music; that the pictures may have humor, but have no art. Let us say, then, that the football song is excellent burlesque and that the pictures are very funny to those who can see it. In dealing with the alleged literature one ought to feel on firmer ground. The editorial is as clever as usual, and more profound than most. The satires...
Custom, aided by natural reluctance to speak plainly, has prevented managers from telling the truth at the beginning of a competition to men who are obviously not possibilities for election. It has been thought kinder to let them work, dropping them as early as occasion arose, or, if this were not possible, nominating them as dummies for election. We believe that within a few days after the opening of the competition a manager should, after careful consideration and personal interviews with each man, drop all whom he knows to be unfit for the position. In doubtful cases, he should tell...
...Let Harvard's alumni give her freedom of financial action. Let them stand behind these leaders of the University, especially behind President Eliot, the foremost citizen of this country. Only in this way can the promise of our scholarship ripen into the welcome fruits of performance...