Word: recruit
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...omission of the Crescents is considered by many as an unwise move because they have always had one of the best sevens in the East, and recruit their players from the schools rather than the colleges. The B. A. A. is the only organization left that gives hockey players not from the universities a chance to develop. Both the B. A. A. and the Harvard Club will be able to put out strong teams this winter and the championship will probably lie between these two. The Y. D. Club unless it changes its rules to allow other than ex-service...
...This movement is to recruit the youth, the young men, especially those in schools and colleges, under the leadership of that spirit...
...merchant marine fleet of the United States will have grown to a considerable size within a short time, and efforts are being made throughout the nation to recruit a sufficient number of men to take care of the new program. Retention by the United States of all German ships seized after the declaration of war, will, according to information from Washington, make it certain that this country will be the second maritime power in the world, with Great Britain in first place and Japan in third. When the war began in 1914 American vessels carried only 9.7 per cent...
...that their confidence in the Alma Mater's superiority never permits them to explain her advantages. But because her advantages are so well understood by them is no assurance that others understand. Harvard needs the southerner and westerner. Unless she is to dwindle into a local university she must recruit more of her sons from the great regions beyond New England. They bring a new point of view which stimulates her own. Perhaps to an even greater degree, the West and South need Harvard. To encourage this intercourse, no new machinery is necessary. All that is needed is energy...
...compose a fast backfield, which can be depended upon for long gains. Skilton, the former B. A. A. hockey star, has developed rapidly under Coach Leary, while C. A. Clark, Jr., '19, Algar of Tufts and O'Connor of Georgetown are well-known college linemen. A. Horween '20, a recruit from the University informals, will start at centre, although he may be supplanted later in the contest by Butler from Bates. The Marines did not arrive in time for a workout in the Stadium yesterday, as previously scheduled. Mahan's plans for enlisting Berry, Miller and Bell, all stars...