Word: smalling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...serve without pay, but otherwise there would be no point in taking any of the leaves but of the English coaching book. If, for instance, we at Harvard are to have any outside assistance for our teams at all--and English practice affords the advocate of purely undergraduate coaching small encouragement--we may as well have it for the whole as for part of the season. And as to giving the captain a larger or even, as in some sports here, the sole voice in picking the team, English students themselves generally admit that the evils of the custom definitely...
...want any one to think I have lost any of my powers. I am going to tell you incidentally the scores of a couple of big games so no one will think that, and then I will drop a small hint on the important matter so that any real smart fellow will know what to do about it. California will have a tough time with Stanford but the final score will be just about 12 to 7. And the same may be said of the Notre Dame outfit when it runs up against Northwestern. The latter may score...
...Walt Whitman", a brief biography of the poet by C. J. Furness, has just been issued by the Harvard University Press, as one of its November publications. The story of the poet during the last years of his life, and of his work, is covered briefly in one small volume...
...Bell foresees a "reconstruction of the American educational system whereby small, independent colleges will cease to exist, and their places will be taken by like institutions banded together through universities." He further stated that Harvard was one of three other universities working toward conserving "the values of the American college that once was, with all the magnificent values of the great modern university-college, in that it is experimenting with a plan through which students live in groups with scholars, but receive university classroom instruction...
...that of course the Harvard houses are not intended to be separate colleges. If they should have influence elsewhere, I should expect it to be rather in the direction of breaking up large colleges into subdivisions mainly social, than in the direction of an affiliation of several small colleges into a large university...