Word: pointings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Conn., June 15.--The feature of today's practice of the University crews was a brush between Crews A and B this afternoon. Both these shells paddled up to the two-mile mark in stretches rowing about 28 strokes to the minute. At this point the second crew was given a length's start, and both crews settled down for a long stretch, Crew A rowing about 27 and the seconds working at a slighter higher stroke. At the three-fourths mile mark the first eight raised the stroke, but Crew B shot up a corresponding amount...
...editorial raises an important point about the responsibility of college graduates for the encouragement of a certain type of semi-professionalism in college athletics. Fortunately, the reports of the Chairman of the Athletic Committee lead us to believe that in recent years public opinion has improved in this respect...
...article containing the most interest from an undergraduate point of view is "Reminiscences of '66," by Mr. George Batchelor '66. It gives an idea of the Harvard which President Eliot found when he came into office. His predecessor is almost unknown, even by name, to the average undergraduate, so that it is a pleasure to read of the days of President Hill. Mr. Batchelor speaks with some familiarity of Longfellow and Lowell, and also manages to give an account of the struggles out of which the present Harvard club system developed...
Whether or not the University will make a creditable showing in track next year depends entirely upon the interest of those men who are physically able and who, by a little sacrifice on their part, could easily develop into point-winners in the field events. There is no disgrace in being defeated when you have done your best-but the knowledge that had it not been for a few "slackers" the showing of the track team this season might have been much different, is a disgrace, and one that every member of the University should make an effort to wipe...
...Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, from June 21 to July 1. Some of the important subjects of America's foreign policy to be discussed by experts of national reputation are: Pan-Americanism; the question of World Organization after the war; the various phases of America's Oriental policy; the International point of view, including the question of compulsory military training and democracy, and social service and the social army as a substitute for militarism...