Word: objections
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...article in your columns Saturday said that "we find broiled capons on the menu rather than beef and lamb, which medical authorities consider unquestionably to be more nutritious; and strawberries, asparagus, or grape fruit at the very season when these only moderately nourishing delicacies are most expensive." If the object of the training table is to promote the physical efficiency of the athlete, and if strawberries in December and aspargus in February do not particularly promote that efficiency, I cannot see why they are necessary or even desirable. A man who is taking hard exercise needs good food, and plenty...
...heaviest charges brought against intercollegiate athletics is the extravagant way in which they are conducted. Undoubtedly, the training tables form one of the biggest and most extravagant items in the expense, and are accordingly the object of violent attacks by the opponents of collegiate commercialism, who decry the general recklessness which attends the management of these tables, and who are continually exhorting the undergraduates to put more fun and good fellowship into their sports. Let all such critics consider the fact that the training table is the largest contributor to the democratic side of athletics and to "athletic good-fellowship...
Tonight at 7 o'clock, there will be a conference for all men actively engaged in social service work, on the third floor of Phillips Brooks House. The object is to exchange ideas and experiences and to answer questions that may have occurred to men, regarding their work. Mr. C. W. Birtwell '81, secretary of the Children's Aid Society of Boston, will preside, and will probably call on some of the men present for a brief account of the work they have been doing in conducting boys' clubs, coaching teams, and teaching classes. There will also be extemporaneous speaking...
Tonight at 8 o'clock, there will be a lecture in the Living Room of the Union by Nicholas W. Tchaykovsky and Alexis Aladyin, alded by Mr. Kellog Durland, a well-known American journalist. The object of the lecture is to discourage further financial aid to the Russian government...
...Tchaykovsky, the pioneer in the Russian struggle for freedom, Alexis Aladyin, the great peasant leader of the first Douma, and Kellogg Durland, the well-known writer on Russia and Siberia, will speak before the members of the Union in the Living Room at 8 o'clock tomorrow night. The object of their speeches is to present the exact state of affairs now prevalent in Russia, and to discourage further financial support to the Russian government...