Word: presently
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Union management has up to the present received comparatively few applications, we take this opportunity of bringing the matter once more before the University. Men who purpose residing in the neighborhood of Cambridge or Boston should not fail to avail themselves of the scheme through mere oversight. Even if they do not patronize the Union regularly, they will find it a pleasant place to take their friends for a meal. They will also be doing their part to support an institution which is the monument of Harvard public spirit and Harvard democracy...
...present the crews are rowing in the following order...
...well recognized that the present method of selecting managers is unsatisfactory. Generally speaking, a good manager must combine three qualities: executive ability, cheerfulness in doing protracted and often disagreeable work, and that indefinable faculty of getting on with the members of the team called "personality." There would appear to be nothing in common between the competitions now conducted and the finding of such...
...that the man who collects the most money will get the job, provided he is personally acceptable. This underlying condition has led to many sharp decisions and much ill-feeling--we cite no instances, but the air is full of them. This must necessarily continue, so long as the present system is adhered to. What is the use of having a competition, if the best competitor does not win out? The money itself is hardly a consideration, since there are other and less obnoxious ways of raising that. The sole actuating cause seems to be the idea that there must...
Many solutions have been advanced, but none has been shown entirely practicable or satisfactory. It might be that a plan adapted from the English model is the key to the situation. A rule that persons qualifying under the present regulations should complete the requirements in three years, while four-year residents should be obliged to take a degree with distinction or fail, would remove most of the difficulties, provided that degree were brought within the reach of the average man after four years' moderate work. Such an innovation would certainly tend to heighten the intellectual standard of the entire College...