Word: question
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...question of the selection of managers is one in which the Committee has carefully refrained from meddling, as it has believed that all such matters should be left to the undergraduates themselves. The captain of a team hands in the name of a man he has nominated for manager. The appointment is then approved by the Graduate Treasurer and by the Committee; but this ratification is in most cases a formality, and a mere safeguard against any manifestly improper choice. The Committee does not concern itself with the question of how the captain arrived at his selection, whether by competition...
...much discussed question of subscriptions the trouble at bottom is a pretty simple one. We most of us are glad to have our expenses for us when this can be decently arranged. It is often a wrench to subscribed, and it is annoying to be dunned for objects for which we do not intend to give anything. This is a thing which pursues us through life, and the more a man gives the more he is applied to. About the only people who are left alone are those who are notoriously mean...
What has happened at Harvard is that the large football surplus has in time, naturally enough, demoralized public sentiment on the question. The student body, as a whole, is much less ready to give money to support the teams than it was twenty, or even ten years ago, although the actual burden has grown steadily lighter. Under the circumstances such a state of feeling is not to be wondered at, and it has borne hard on the managers, for the unwilling subscriber has now a convenient fence to hide behind; indeed he can even display indignation that such an appeal...
...Committee has to settle the question of how best to apportion a large annual income and equally heavy expenses. For a time there was a great surplus and under its influence there was a natural tendency to taking things easily in many ways. The finances were not always as economically managed as they might have been, subscriptions went down steadily, and one minor team after another was given irregular assistance, though some of them which now regard aid as almost indispensable existed for many years before such a thing was thought...
...have been Dr. F. W. Tomkins, Dr. Lyman Abbott, Dr. Van Dyke, Dr. Charles Cuthbert Hall, Bishop Vincent, Bishop Jaggar, Rev. C. F. Dole, Rev. J. J. Baxter, D.D., Dr. W. J. Dawson, and the Archbishop of Canterbury. Besides these religious addresses there have been addresses on various social questions, one by Mr. C. B. Marsh on "The Tramp Question," Dr. J. R. Brackett on "The Ultimate Aims of our Philanthropic Work," Mr. H. B. Sawyer on "Boys' Club Work" and President Samuel Gompers on "Labor Unions...