Word: soundness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...entirely possible to live well within our athletic income and yet make appreciable progress not only in caring for the teams but towards the demonetizing of athletics. The CRIMSON desires to express its appreciation of the consciencious work of the men who have put Harvard athletics on a sound financial basis. The ideals of practical efficiency apart from luxury, of extensive as contrasted with too highly intensive athletics must characterize our policy in the future...
...been living up to her reputation this spring in the furor that has stirred her over her crew. There have been imported coaches and rumors of revolutionary shifts in the orders and such a boiling over as never before was seen by the banks of New Haven on the Sound. And in contrast, though there have been shifts, galore and unexpected, our crews have gone on comparatively quiet waters in the public mind and few men in the University realize that we have a "rowing situation." But we have. The order of the crews that leave today is probably...
...brilliance of the metaphor), it is extremely doubtful whether many worthy undergraduates will alter their extra-curriculum activities. It seems as if the undergraduate must be brought to know the pleasure of study itself, the actual exhilaration of intellectual "from." the sense of strength to be got from sound thinking. And it seems as if the best method of introducing him to these matters is to let him work under a trainer who knows his weaknesses and powers. In short, it is the old question of establishing intimacy between student and instructor. It takes men already intellectually alive...
...purpose of the Speakers' Club is an admirable one--"to further the oral expression of representative opinion on current college problems; to maintain an open Forum in the University." It deserves commendation for its increasing success. One note of warning, however, the CRIMSON feels called upon to sound in the midst of the recent prosperity. There is the danger of the Club deteriorating into a merely social organization unless each year there is definite provision made for maintaining the worthy aims and activities of the Club. This possibility would obviously defeat the purpose for which the Club was founded...
...well as the scholastic standard, and the question of giving particular attention to the physical welfare of the undergraduates merits serious consideration." Here surely is no trace of originality in either thought or expression. Nor would everybody call all the critical opinions expressed in this number of the Illustrated sound. Most critics, I think, as they have read Mr. Herrick's novel, "Together," have had such difficulty in remembering who's who among the characters, that they would not say with the kindly author of "Some Harvard Writers" in the Illustrated that "Together" is notable for its "fine sense...