Word: parted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...regard to the possibility of a cruise this summer, Admiral Wood said that there was still a great shortage of ships, and that he doubted very much if any could be spared for training purposes at present. Summer cruises, however, will be part of the regular naval course when it is established...
...Freshmen are doing even better than the upper classes at the University. There are 77 candidates for the 1922 crew, 39 out for track, 35 playing baseball, and 19 are taking part in spring football, making a grand total of 168. As there are 539 members of the class, the percentage in this case is 32 per cent, slightly higher than the University figures...
...news that twenty-nine percent of all eligible undergraduates are taking part in one or another of the four major sports this spring is at least worthy of comment. It will come as a decided surprise to many of the older graduates who in pre-war days were wont to compare eleven men on the football team to the whole seething cheering-sections which gave them lusty support. "Why is there not a chance on some team or crew for every man who wants to take part in a college sport?" these graduates asked. Generally there was an answer...
...undergraduate is to claim a part in contemplated reforms at Harvard, as he has a right to do, he must be absolutely sure in order to get a hearing for his views, that he has fulfilled his obligations in trying to make the present machinery of the University work successfully. He cannot in justice deny that the responsibility of whether that machinery has worked well or ill rests largely with the attitude he has taken. Take the case of concentration and distribution, which is such a bugbear at present. How many have given serious study and thought to the subject...
...Adviser to the position of an automaton, it is not for the latter to dispute the choice. Doubtless he would rather become a counselor and friend, a constant link between the University and the individual student, as he was designed to be, but it certainly should not be a part of his duty to make personal calls on students, or otherwise flatter them into making use of him. If he is to make any intelligent contribution to future reform, the undergraduate must first reform his attitude, and thus afford present systems a fair trial. D. T. EATON...