Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Harvard Dining Association is in an embarrassing situation, the importance of which has been very little realized, but which has grown more and more serious despite the untiring efforts of those, responsible for its management. The failure of the present plan to appeal more generally to the University has led some even to suggest the undesirability of maintaining large dining associations at Harvard, a suggestion which none of us will accept without far more conclusive proof than we yet have...
...undergraduate literary mind. There is throughout a note of maturity, due no doubt to the peculiar atmosphere of Harvard as contrasted with other universities. The main editorial, dealing with the American stage through the medium of a lecture by Mr. Percy MacKaye, is a thoughtful and unusually serious statement of modern dramatic effort. If somewhat idealistic in tone, we must remember that the idealism of youth becomes oftentimes the truth of age. The quotation from Arnold is significant: "Organize the theatre! The theatre is irresistible...
...fish story in New England dialect, and "McVane's Retirement." by R. E. Andrews, the story of a railroad wreck, are decidedly conventional both in style and plot. Mr. Wheclock's poem. "A Work of Art," is a dignified bit of verse, characterized, like all his work, by serious purpose and marked excellence of form...
...cannot see that the serious position in which our intercollegiate sport has been placed is in any way affected by the announcement. It makes no difference whether the Faculty passed the vote as an expression of its own opinion, or whether the Association of Colleges passed it at the instigation of the Harvard authorities. In either case Harvard is the one most deeply concerned. Or if the Association, moved by some other college or university, took the step Independently and Harvard approved, where is the distinction...
...have had on the number of injuries. The statistics show that the number of injuries show that the number of injuries during the past season was extremely small, compared with the number of injuries before the establishment of the open game, and that they were of a much less serious character. The new rules, the report shows, have had the desired result of eliminating roughness, and of minimizing the number of injuries. Dr. Nichols's report will be published next month...