Word: reasonableness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...first argument, a thing half done might as well not be done at all. There is as good reason for employing a paid coach in athletic sports as there is in employing a paid tutor to teach the conjugation of Greek verbs,--provided we want athletic sports at all, which is assumed. If athletics are to be maintained, they ought to be properly guided and directed. They cannot be properly guided and directed by the chance and fluctuating interest of graduate coaches, much as we may owe to them. A responsible head is needed in directing the training...
...remedying this state of affairs, has been by putting all the more important functions of the local governments into the hands of business commissions, and this principle of commissions is capable of being further widened to include local administration. This is essentially a business enterprise, and there is no reason why the form of government, which experience has found most efficient for business enterprises, the board of directors, should not serve equally well for cities. If one should say that this is impossible and Utopian, it may be pointed out that it has already been done. In Galveston, the government...
...Higginson '41 and Professor C. E. Norton '46. Owing to illness Mr. W. D. Howells h.'67, who was to be the principal speaker will be unable to attend, but his address will be read by Professor Bliss Perry of the department of English. For the same reason Mr. T. B. Aldrich will not be present, but his poem will be rendered by Mr. C. T. Copeland '82 of the English department. A special chorus from the public schools will sing the cantata, "The Village Blacksmith...
...reason why I so thoroughly believe in the athletic spirit at Harvard is because the athletic spirit is essentially democratic. Our chief interest should not lie in the great champions in sport. On the contrary, our concern should be most of all to widen the base, the foundation in athletic sports; to encourage in every way a healthy rivalry which shall give to the largest possible number of students the chance to take part in vigorous outdoor games. It is of far more importance that a man shall play something himself, even if he plays it badly, than that...
...himself. Each man should feel that, if he fails in this, he is not only failing in his duty, but is showing himself in a contemptible light. A man may neglect his political duties because he is too lazy, too selfish, too shortsighted, or too timid; but whatever the reason may be it is certainly an unworthy reason, and it shows either a weakness or worse than a weakness in the man's character. Above all, you college men, remember that if your education, the pleasant lives you lead, make you too fastidious, too sensitive to take part...