Word: minding
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...College. It is idle to expect, nor indeed would it be desirable, that there should be in Harvard a uniform level of taste and association. Some men will excel in one thing and some in another; some in things of the body, some in things of the mind; and where thousands are gathered together each will naturally find some group of specially congenial friends with whom he will form ties of peculiar social intimacy. These groups--athletic, artistic, scientific, social--must inevitably exist. My plea is not for their abolition. My plea is that they shall be got into...
...Harvard or any other college turn out mollycoddles instead of vigorous men, I may add that I do not in the least object to a sport because it is rough. Rowing, baseball, lacrosse, track and field games, hockey, football, are all of them good. Moreover, it is to my mind simple nonsense, a mere confession of weakness, to desire to abolish a game because tendencies show themselves, or practices grow up, which prove that the game ought to be reformed. Take football for instance. The preparatory schools are able to keep football clean and to develop the right spirit...
...manufacture of machinery the same principle as that which governs any social system holds-it is not the individual skill of a workman which counts, for a good workman may be employed on a poor machine, but it is this skill, under the direction of a master mind. This shows that the essential feature of the production of wealth is not labor, as the socialists claim, but rather the ability of the inventive and directing brain. Therefore there is no reason why laborers should receive a greater share of the proceeds of industry as wages, which many socialists claim they...
...greatly, for under present circumstances such evils as there are never come out to be remedied, and the impossibility of getting information lends credence to every story that gets abroad. If athletics were run in the open, we might well rely on the general good sense of the undergraduate mind to correct all abuses of any moment, and to keep athletics thoroughly democratic. This shut-mouthed policy does us still further injury by causing doubt and uncertainty, mingled with no little suspicion, on the part of our athletic rivals, and by putting us in a bad light with the general...
...Lunt '09 introduced Mr. Copeland, the speaker of the evening, who gave an interesting account of the undergraduate life of M. Newell '94, commenting upon his charming character and the brilliancy of his mind. It is in memory of Newell, who was one of the greatest athletes ever graduated from Harvard, that the Newell Gate on Soldiers Field and the Newell Boat Club have been erected. Mr. Copeland also read extracts from his college diary, which further recalled his great versatility...