Word: particularly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...much for that." Professor Webster and a great many critics of American higher education would take this instance as typical of the proverbial Harvard indifference. There is still considerable justification for their opinion. Yet during the last two years Americans, and American students in particular, have undoubtedly tended to face more seriously the intellectual and social problems which they encounter. This sudden Renaissance is part of the backwash of war. It is witnessed at Harvard by the increased interest that students are beginning to take in national and international questions. The preparedness agitation, the International Polity Club movement, the excitement...
...teams will be run again this year. The class is intended primarily to give an opportunity for exercise and development to men who are not out for any one organized team. It therefore aims to give general physical training rather than proficiency in any particular branch of sport. Though there is no expense attached to membership in the class, the very best of coaching is afforded the members...
...general work of the team was slipshod, and though this was in part due to the condition of the ice, it was not wholly so. Frequently the puck would shoot out of a general scrimmage with no one following it and with no particular purpose. There was also a great deal of slashing stick-work, and though on the whole the men passed fairly well, a great many passes were wide or too hard or forward...
This is not derisive criticism of any one element in the class, it is a condemnation of the unworthy methods used by all the cliques who desired to see their particular candidates elected. Since the list of men nominated for the Senior officers can never be considered infallible, the democratic right of petition exists for the use of any group of men who feel that a man has been omitted who deserves to be nominated on account of his college record. When this right is used intelligently, there can be no possibility of hostile groups of politicians developing...
Although the tie score in Saturday's contest eliminated the University association football team as an aspirant for second place in the intercollegiate soccer league, the season was by no means as unsuccessful as last year's and the results of the league games in particular are noteworthy as showing a remarkable improvement in the team. Reviewing the contests throughout the season there is to be noted a steady building up of a machine which reached its full strength shortly before the end of the season. The playing in the final game with Haverford fell short of the usual standard...