Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There is an excellent reason why people attach importance to an undergraduate's making a college team or paper. It signifies a fitness in the man for which there is scarcely another test...
...more men come out to fill up the present squads? The common excuse is lack of time or ability. If the former reason is given, make time; if the latter, try first and let the coach decide where your effort will be most useful. The underlying cause is the fear of appearing ridiculous. No man, whatever his ability, will be laughed at for honestly trying to make some squad...
Every college has what are generally known as "snap courses." But it is not right to assume that all of them are easy ...... It may very well be that these courses appeal to men for the simple reason that the teacher knows how to make them appealing. Put the same work in the hands of an incompetent and inexperienced instructor,...... and it will no longer be identified with the name of "snap course." It will immediately become an uninteresting course, and over it the undergraduate will hoist the red flag of danger as a warning to his unsuspecting fellows. --Boston...
...alternative, then, is to employ certain specialists at certain times or to maintain a staff of coaches the year round whose dominant characteristic is their mediocrity. Mediocrity is implied if only for the reason that the cost of maintaining permanently a group of men such as Haughton, Tad Jones, et al, would be altogether prohibitive--assuming they could be induced to devote all their time to athletics at any price...
...time of the first Freshman Jubilee, the Harvard Illustrated published an article outlining the administration of the Jubilee and calling attention to the fact that the real reason for inaugurating this new celebration was to be found in the desire of many graduates and undergraduates that a singing tradition might be established here such as exists in foreign universities and in a few colleges of our own country, notably Amherst. Shortly thereafter there appeared in the Illustrated a letter from a graduate expressing the hope that the early promise of the Jubilee might be fulfilled and that Harvard men would...