Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will be reduced to a working basis as soon as possible after outdoor work begins. With the Boston University game less than a fortnight away and the spring trip only three weeks off, it is essential that the players get on the diamond as soon as possible. Despite the prospect of sore arms and wet feet, therefore, the squad will probably practice today on the Freshman field...
...writer of "From a Graduate's Window" goes on to say that with the struggle for entrance to the University intensified to an unprecedented extent by the limitation of numbers, the prospect "is not encouraging for those Harvard men who know that their sons are not pre-eminent in scholarship, athletics or school leadership, but are sure they are good material for the college." It might be suggested that these fond parents allow their paternal pride to overrule their better judgment--and that it is difficult to see just what athletic eminence has to do with the New Plan examinations...
Such popular sentiments, erroneous though they may be, are factors which both you and I are bound to take into consideration. . . I see little prospect of our being able to attain any agreement in such matters unless we are first able by frank and courageous discussion to achieve some unanimity in regard to the essential purposes to which these problems are merely subsidiary...
Several promising vocalists have reported, among them are A. Mackey-Smith '24, president of the University Glee Club, and Clark Hodder '25, University hockey and Golf star. The whole cast is being coached intensively with the prospect of a tentative cast being chosen before Coach Silvers' departure tomorrow...
...times and shared twice, the Championship of the Intercollegiate League in the eleven years preceding 1916--although the recent lack of complete success is not unfamiliar. But apparently, lacrosse has achieved a gruesome and quite undeserved reputation for savage ferocity, and even the boldest spirits are dismayed by the prospect. The result has been small squads and necessarily, less keen competition for the positions and less material from which to draw...