Word: minor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...undergraduate now to be grateful for the thought and labor, and they have been great, expended on the details of this ticket system, and to be patient with the minor defects to which it or any new scheme is liable on first trial. To Mr. Moore, as its originator and leader, belongs most of the credit. This stride toward greater economy and efficiency in the management of athletics shows that he is eager to relieve them of the old criticism of extravagance. We wish him success in his endeavors toward this end, that, as a result, Harvard's athletic equipment...
...Messrs. Gold and Kirby came over from England and took charge. Harriman is a young man and rather inexperienced for such a responsible position. He succeeded, however, in grounding the men in the fundamentals of the stroke he had imported, although in many of the more minor details he was not so successful. The whole matter was taken in hand by the English coaches and as they themselves say the Yale crew rows a stroke that very closely approximates that rowed at the English universities. Yale has had two time rows since reaching Gales Ferry, the latter being done...
...eastern division of the shooting league; and the lacrosse team the winner of the northern division in its league. The track team, although it lost to Yale by a narrow margin, defeated Cornell, and fell but three points short of winning the intercollegiate meet. Teams in the minor sports not mentioned here have not been so strong...
...expected of the five major sport teams in next year's contests is outlined below. Hockey appears for the first time in the major sport classification this year, the long agitation over it having been brought to a head in the spring and its advancement from the minor sport category recommended by the Student Council and approved by the Athletic Committee...
...extension of the Leiter Cup baseball series into the examination period, an annual occurrence, has been the occasion of the usual homilies on "undergraduate irresponsibility." Complaints of appointments unkept, of carelessness and unreliability, break out at the slightest suggestion. The difficulty of securing trustworthy men for positions of even minor responsibility is becoming proverbial and, indeed, the question is one of the hardiest of the hardy perennials that grow in the editorial column. And that is not all. In the phrase "college-graduate irresponsibility" we have an addition to our categories. Again and again business men remark upon the shiftlessness...