Word: matter
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Professor Mather Abbot, Yale's faculty crew coach, who will again take charge of the squad, has outlined Yale's rowing policy for the coming year as follows: "No matter how poor an oar a man may prove, there will always be a crew for him to row on; a coach to instruct him, and a final race for him to row in at the close of the season. The coaches will never dismiss a man from the river...
Entrance into violent athletic contests in which there is always some danger of injury, must be a matter of the student's own choosing. All that the college can reasonably be expected to do, is to see that every man who enters is at least organically sound, and in fairly good physical condition...
...Cambridge, and in-as-much as many of them have had an opportunity to supplement the ideals and theories imbibed here with from ten to twenty years' practical experience in dealing with physical training and athletics, perhaps they are justified in adopting the resolution referred to. As a matter of fact the majority of the colleges throughout the country have long recognized the importance of physical training, in theory at least, and made attendance at the gymnasiums more or less compulsory. This would be absolutely necessary if physical training and athletics were to be put on the same footing...
...Athletic Committee as well as Dean of the College during the absence of Dean Yeomans. The Committee meets for the first time in Dean Yeoman's office this evening at 8 o'clock, with Professor Greenough presiding. The policy of the University in regard to the matter of conducting athletic teams as in the past will be the most important question to be decided, while the arranging of schedules in all major sports for this spring and next fall also awaits the action of the Committee...
Those who have faith in the democratic ideals and tendencies of Harvard are a little puzzled by this situation of the Union. As a matter of fact it is natural enough. The building was put up not long ago to meet a very real need among the student body of a common gathering place, of a headquarters for all phases of student activities. That such a need has ceased to exist we should hardly care to assert. Nevertheless with the development of student life and equipment for student organizations we must admit that the special functions which the Union once...