Word: likings
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...costs too much to run our sports. The minor teams, which are on their own resources, have to economize strictly, but there is no doubt whatever that expenditures for the football and baseball teams, if not for crew or track, could be cut down largely by careful and business-like management, without hurting the teams. The pay of coaches, if they are the right sort, is I believe a legitimate expense, and a necessary one if we are to have first-class teams; but extravagance in training tables in the buying and use of uniforms and other supplies, and duplication...
...taken off managers, who now have to devote a lot of valuable time to them, and off subscribers, who give grudgingly perhaps, or beyond their means because asked by a personal friend; (4) more men would see the games, and would be drawn into participating, especially in sports like track, lacrosse, and basketball, which can use men of almost any weight and build; (5) the managers, relieved of worry about subscriptions, could enormously increase the number of men in active competition. Even under the present system, the track management, by canvassing the dormitories and looking up individuals, was able...
...meeting for all men interested in lacrosse, including men who have already played and those who would like to learn the game, will be held in the Assembly Room of the Union, this evening at 7 o'clock...
...Harvard men. Professor Bliss Perry's "Walt Whitman" and the volume of Dean Shaler's posthumous poems entitled. "From Old Fields"--complete the list of special articles. As usual, about half the number is devoted to the various departments--news from the classes, student life, athletics, and the like. The member as a whole is of distinct and unusual importance, for it deals primarily with two subjects of immediate interest to Harvard men--the football question, and the possibility of Harvard's retaining the leadership among American universities...
...should like to see the training table considered primarily as a social institution, which has the additional advantage of providing all who partake of it with the food required to make them strong, well-nourished men. It seems to me indisputably true that the more we look on our training tables as such an institution, and the less we consider them a series of free meals of unnecessary delicacies, served to a few athletic idols, the purer, cleaner and better will be our athletics...