Word: recruit
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...college reason to be proud of it in any respect save in its football victory last fall! After the detestable action of its nine at New Haven, comes the announcement that the class will not support the crew. We are accustomed to regard the freshman class as one to recruit the ranks of our 'varsity teams, to fill places of importance in after college years, to keep up Harvard's reputation. But of what use is a class that has in its freshman year learned no lessons of earnestness, or class and college loyalty...
...Taylor, '89, has gone South to recruit his health after a severe attack of typhoid fever. He will return to college after the mid-years...
...apprenticeship in a well-arranged library; but it is not easy to find such opportunities. The oversight and introduction of new people in a library is a disadvantage to that library, as interfering with its work, which few head librarians are willing to encounter unless it is necessary to recruit the library staff. Hence a special department has been instituted at Columbia College in New York, called the school of "Library Economy" which is under the direction of Melville Dewey, the secretary of the American Library Association. They have teachers specially provided for instruction, and they aim to secure...
...Paul Club together with an Exeter Club, in addition to the Andover Club already existing, seems to betray an almost pitiable weakness upon the part of our new-made university. Is Yale upon so weak a basis that it is necessary to form proselyting communities whereby to recruit her numbers? Can she not rely sufficiently upon the advantages which a course of study at New Haven presents above a course of study pursued elsewhere to induce the young men of the country to adopt her antiquated systems? Or must an attempt be made to overpersuade, through friendship and social ties...
...material from which to recruit our crews and teams will, it is fair to suppose, be supplied by men whose ambition prompts them to give their time to training, and there is no reason for fearing that the reputation of the college for special athletics will ever suffer from a lack of candidates for the honors of the field and track. But the greater part of the freshman class will take no part in these college games, and not one man in five, probably, will ever see his name in print in connection with any athletic event during his entire...