Word: mental
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Almost anyone will admit that bodily exercise is the necessary complement of mental activity, yet there has always remained the valid objection that college athletics are for the few. When the Harvard and Yale class crews meet for the first time on the Basin this afternoon, a big step toward the removal of the objection will be made. Perhaps the most pleasant side of the race, however, is its friendly informality. Strange as it may seem, the Yale crew will race in a Harvard boat, and we hope that it will be properly welcomed and entertained by the Harvard oarsmen...
...great deal to raise the standard of literary endeavor in both colleges. The tri-partite competition now planned should stimulate even keener rivalry and call out contributions of distinct merit. The conspicuous defect in American undergraduate life today is the lack of intellectual exercise, and every innovation that stimulates mental contests must receive our complete approval...
...misspent college courses is to be found primarily in an irrational and haphazard beginning. Few are the students, who, starting out with no definite plan of study in their mind and no inclination to form one, ever cease their academic meanderings in order to follow a rational scheme of mental training. As they begin, so they end, intellectual skirt-dancers. To avoid such lamentable wasters of educational opportunities, the system of concentration has been put into force. This afternoon, the founder of the scheme, President Lowell, will speak to the Freshmen on the "Choice of Electives," and will explain...
...Middletown Springs, and Three-Fingered Bennett, (Manager Henderson is not now sure which he will start), the scoop-chasers will be fortunate to cop a single bingle, while the entire staff of candidates' slab artists will be unable to stop the sangerfest of batting editors. Aside from the tremendous mental and physical gap separating editors from the lowly candidates, any extra base hits will be counted heavily against the latter, and scoop credit will be given them for all errors. Thus we feel that without undue modesty we can safely predict a victory for ourselves...
...scrub teams give many students opportunities in hockey and baseball. Mr. Garcelon has tried to unearth lonely Freshmen, and, through physical exercise, to strengthen their bodies, clear their minds, and bring them into healthy association with their fellows. He maintains that a systematic effort would noticeably better the physical, mental, and moral condition of the whole class...