Word: make
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...world waits expectantly for the official denial by Harvard University of the account of an opening of a "hostess house for students" published in yesterday's papers, and its ascription to a corrosive Yale propaganda. According to the dispatches, "one luxury is a candy kitchen where undergraduates can make fudge or taffy." A few years ago a public which took its opinion of Harvard from professional humorists would have found in this statement confirmation of all its suspicions, but football scores of 41 to 0 against Yale prepared the world for the spectacle seen in a war in which Harvard...
...from doing more than a certain amount of athletics, writing, managing, etc., he will be faced with the alternative of spending more time on his studies or of doing nothing. This method of attack seems to be putting the cart before the horse. There is no effort made to make the curriculum more attractive to the student or to foster in him a desire to learn more or to take a high rank. Not at all. He can either study or loaf but at all events we shall deny him the privilege of outside activities...
...stubborn brute--with a little clever manipulation you can lead him anywhere you will but it is an almost impossible task to drive him with a whip. And this it seems to me, is what they are attempting at New Haven. There is but one way to make the undergraduate pay more attention to his books. That is, to increase his desire to learn; stimulate his curiosity and his ambition and make him conscious of his mental inferiority. Why do undergraduates slave and work over their extra-curriculum activities? Because they make a direct appeal to ambition and pride...
Eleven men of the University squad will make the trip to Philadelphia to take part in the Pennsylvania Relay Carnival, Friday and Saturday. Captain A. Stevens '19 leaves today at noon with E. O. Gourdin '21, in order to participate in the 56-pound weight and the hop-skip and jump, respectively. These events are to be run off tomorrow. The other nine men, C. A. Clark '19, A. W. Douglass '21, D. J. Duggan '21, H. C. Flower '19, W. H. Goodwin '21, R. W. Harwood '20 C. G. Krogness '21, W. Moore Occ., and D. F. O'Connell...
...University rifle team will oppose Princeton this afternoon at the Bay State School of Musketry. Ten men will shoot in today's match which has been arranged for a 50 foot distance. Captain S. K. Bolton '21, A. Palmer '20, and G. F. Jewett '19 are expected to make a good showing for the University...