Word: older
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Doubtless the Boy scout Movement is familiar to many. It is a non-sectarian effort, now extending throughout this country and England, with the aim of utilizing the normal impulses of boys for lout-of-door life and for adventure, by organizing them into group under an older leader to aid in their development into alert, useful citizens. The movement is meant for all classes of boys and the groups are organized in sympathy with and not in opposition to existing organizations...
...scratch contest in the Basin on Thursday. The purposes of this work are to bring to light unknown material of University calibre and to provide outdoor exercise. The number of men from each of the upper classes,--11 Seniors, 14 Juniors, and 25 Sophomores,--shows that the older men either have less confidence in their ability and less ambition than their juniors, or else do not feel the need of physical exertion. This should not be the case, for the value of regular exercise ought to become more apparent as greater familiarity with our bodily needs is acquired...
...committee upon whose report the new regulations are based was composed entirely of older-men. It is doubtful if the questions under discussion could be considered with absolute impartiality by such a body. The report certainly gives no evidence of concessions made for the privileges received. The CRIMSON believes that before another football season the whose matter should be reconsidered...
...game; and that when the season is over they should have a dinner and a theatre party, and should send the Athletic Association the bill. There is always a new manager, laudably eager for the happiness of his team and seldom so careful about expenditures as an older man would be. It is the purpose of the committee not to be stingy, but to check graft wherever it can. In one direction the committee believes that it has increased expenses legitimately. It has done more than in earlier years for the comfort of visiting teams and has shown them more...
...obvious that any college organization which selects its members largely in the first half of the Freshman year must in many cases base its choice on inadequate or mistaken grounds, thereby giving rise to injurious, because false, social distinctions. Finally, a club composed of Freshmen, and for which the older members feel serious responsibility only to a very limited degree, is beyond question peculiarly liable to unthinking outbreaks of one sort or another...