Word: performance
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...worth while to train a man to fight cases in courts of law? Is it worth while to train a man to perform major operations in surgery? Is it worth while to train a man to wield an oar in a boat race at New London? Is it worth while to train a man to carry a football across an opponent's goal-line...
...misapprehension, however, to consider the elections of these years unimportant. The men chosen today will hold office well into Senior year, and will have some of the most important of Senior duties to perform. The president will have the appointment of the Junior dance committee, which will manage the most important social event in the undergraduate life of the class with the single exception of Class...
...many who come as comparative strangers to Cambridge such minor details would bring much additional enjoyment. West Point has a large squad of enlisted men available for this sort of service; but the Harvard management would have no difficulty in securing a corps of qualified employees who would perform at Harvard games the duties that the regulars accomplish so efficiently at West Point...
...president shall preside at all meetings, have the power to cast a vote only in case of a tie, and at the election of members to the Council. (2) The vice-president shall, in the absence of the president, assume all his powers. (3)The secretary shall perform the duties regularly pertaining to that office...
...more representative than those ordinarily attracted by a competition, would be available. In every class there are a certain number of men, whose executive ability has been tested in other connections, whose personality has given them prominence; men too busy to undergo a long, tedious competition, but who would perform gladly and excellently the duties of a proffered managership. No less than five such men, holding office by direct appointment, are now doing their part in managing major teams; they are known to be among the most fitting...