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...accept their decision as final? If there seems to be very crying need of additional nominations, then make use of the provision for petitions, but let only such men sign as really intend to back the candidate, the then there will be no more of this confusion. If this sort of thing continues it will soon be easier for nominating committees to reverse their present custom and decide who ought not to be nominated...
...things which caused severe criticism, but they were all forgotten when the team which he was coaching won from Yale, I suppose that playing Filley at end caused more talk than any other one thing this fall. It was attributed to favoritism. I know Filley. He is not the sort of man who becomes the beneficiary of unfair methods or society influence. The graduates who were coaching the ends thought from the moment he began to play that he was the most promising candidate for that position they had ever seen. They said so to friends of mine long before...
...therefore, not adopt in football a policy which has brought success to our chief opponent in that same game, and a policy and a sort of head which has brought Harvard success in baseball? Harvard has surely had enough experience to finally profit. She must have some settled head in football, she must select him carefully and with a view not to next year alone but to last at least two years thereafter; and she must take time to make this selection. There has been no head coach of Harvard football in the last ten years who if given...
...without question, our foremost native American conductor. In fact so far does he carry his instruction in his students' orchestra that young men players have passed from that to the famous Boston Symphony Orchestra. Chadwick's orchestra meets once a week and the musical student who enjoys this sort of music or wishes for any reason or other to acquire a considerable degree of skill in ensemble playing cannot do a more profitable thing than join it, or if he is not sufficiently advanced to play with this students' orchestra he can at first join a preparatory ensemble class...
Athletic supremacy is supposed to be decided by the prowess of the chosen teams. A deliberate attempt to win games by making so much noise as to confuse the players seems to me discreditable, and organized cheering of that sort should be suppressed...